Books similar like Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.

We us…

Buy this book on Amazon

Abundance

Buy this book on Amazon

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio.

Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.

Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associat…

Buy this book on Amazon

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

**A New York Times Bestseller**

'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth

Consumer …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

*One of Bloomberg's Best Books of the Year*The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will br…

Buy this book on Amazon

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film.

Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, …

Buy this book on Amazon

From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3)

Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors.

On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit—Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness

Buy this book on Amazon

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern worl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.…

Buy this book on Amazon

From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

Buy this book on Amazon

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

Buy this book on Amazon

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The most fatal virus known to science, rabies — a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans — kills…

Buy this book on Amazon

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back

In the ever more compet…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

The freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.
An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the b…

Buy this book on Amazon

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

#1 New York Times bestseller

"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've he…

Buy this book on Amazon

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center.

When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was…

Buy this book on Amazon

Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing, Including You; Embracing Life’s Instability with Rugged Flexibility―a Practical Model for Resilience

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset and identity, and developing habits for life's intensifying flux. From social disruptions like econom…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered ou…

Buy this book on Amazon

Magic Words

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of from persuading others …

Buy this book on Amazon

Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization similar books