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Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer

6 best books like Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer (Stewart Brand): Exhalation: Stories, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, On Grand Strategy

Exhalation: Stories
AuthorTed Chiang
An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already...
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
AuthorScott H. Young
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education. In...
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
AuthorAndrew Solomon
ISBN0684854678
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly...
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
AuthorLouis V. Gerstner Jr.
ISBN0060523794
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.

Then...
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
AuthorAlexandra Horowitz
ISBN1439191255
You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in the distance and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. The hum of the fluorescent lights;...
On Grand Strategy
AuthorJohn Lewis Gaddis
ISBN1594203512
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades

John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill...
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