A comprehensive survey of undergraduate mathematics, compressing four years of study into one robust overview.

In The Math You Need, Thomas Mack provides a singular, comprehensive survey of undergraduate mathematics, compressing four years of math curricula into one volume. Without sacrificing rigor, this book provides a go-to resource for the essentials that any academic or professional needs. Each chapter is followed by numerous exercises to provide the reader an opportunity to practice what they learned. The Math You Need is distinguished in its use of the Bourbaki style—the gold standard for concision and an approach that mathematicians will find of particular interest. As ambitious as it is compact, this text embraces mathematical abstraction throughout, avoiding ad hoc computations in favor of general results.

Covering nine areas—group theory, commutative algebra, linear algebra, topology, real analysis, complex analysis, number theory, probability, and statistics—this thorough and highly effective overview of the undergraduate curriculum will prove to be invaluable to students and instructors alike.

书名：《极简主义企业家: 伟大的创始人如何用更少的钱做更多的事》
“Pay attention.”—Jason Fried
A revolutionary roadmap for building startups that go the distance
Now more than ever, you don’t need a fancy office, Ivy League degree, or millions of dollars in venture capital to launch a business that matters for the communities you care most about. Software, the internet, and remote work have made it possible for entrepreneurs to start for free, make a customer of anyone, and grow a profitable, sustainable company from anywhere.
Packed with hard-won, battle-tested lessons from Lavingia’s own journey of building Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell their work, The Minimalist Entrepreneur teaches founders how to:
• start then learn
• build a community, then solve a problem for them
• charge for something even before you’ve built anything
• avoid running out of money and, more importantly, energy
• run a tight ship amid the rise of the gig economy and remote work
• own a business without it owning you back.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. This is essential knowledge for every founder aspiring to build a business worth building.
中文版内容介绍：
由风投出资、IPO驱动的十亿美元级别的神话公司出现了越来越多的裂缝——它们不再盈利，而且存在不道德经营的行为——企业家们正在寻找另一条可以建立有价值的、可持续的健全企业道路。《极简主义企业家》一书就是新一代企业家的宣言，相较于大公司，他们更想创建一个伟大的公司。
2011年，萨希尔•拉文吉亚(Sahil Lavingia) 离开了拼趣(Pinterest)二号员工的位置，去追求自己的梦想——创建一家市值10亿美元的公司。他的初创公司Gumroad发展迅速，很容易就筹集到风险投资。Gumroad公司是提供一个链接创造者和买家的平台，现在它有着华丽的办公室和高效的招聘，正一步步迈向独角兽公司之列。
直到一个季度后，经济增长放缓，一切都崩溃了。但拉文吉亚还是从头开始重建了Gumroad。与第一次尝试过程中的浪费和为了利益增长而过度增长的心态不同，这一次他选择成为一名极简企业家。他将自己在Gumroad的经历和其他有着相似想法公司的经历结合起来，为那些选择长期增长而不是不可持续增长的企业家提供了一条新的道路。
独角兽公司并不是初创企业的最佳或唯一道路。《极简企业家》一书教会创始人如何避免会导致失败的投资，如何在零工经济和远程工作高速发展中严加管理，如何开发和发布产品才不会很快就失败或者经常失败，以及如何实现并且保持盈利。
面对契机：书中拉文吉亚在2019年发表的一篇有关个人经历的文章在硅谷引发了轰动。他在文章中清楚地表达了大家对风投驱动的创业模式日渐增长的不满，这种模式并没有给那些利润丰厚但增长速度不快的公司留出空间。这篇文章发出后在Medium平台上获赞超过了11.5万，在推特上获赞超过了1万，同时也受到了Basecamp创始人贾森•弗里德(Jason Fried)、戴维•海涅迈尔•汉森(David Heinemeier Hanson)，以及投资人马克•库班(Mark Cuban)、克里斯•萨卡(Chris Sacca)、纳瓦尔•拉维坎特(Naval Ravikant)等人的广泛讨论，在精益创业大会和MicroConf上也多有提及。
抓住时机：我们逐渐认清一个事实：风投投资和IPO驱动的企业并不像他们吹嘘的那样。每天都有新的头条新闻指控优步(Uber)、WeWork、Away、Glossier以及The Wing等公司存在商业违规和道德违规的行为。企业家们正准备走上不同的道路。
崛起中的明星：通过这本书以及在《连线》和《快公司》上的简介，拉文吉亚获得了广泛的关注。这些关注已经转变为不断增长的关注者和订阅者。他现在有1.1万电子期刊的订阅者，而且这个数字还在不断增长。Gumroad现在也在可持续的快速成长，很大程度上因为它是为了抵御大流行病而建立的，同时它也吸引了寻找其他收入来源的创造者的兴趣。

Some years ago, "new math" took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to grasp the underlying mathematical concepts. The result, at least at first, was a great deal of confusion among teachers, students, and parents. Since then, the negative aspects of "new math" have been eliminated and its positive elements assimilated into classroom instruction.<br />In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts underlying "new math": groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and more. According to Professor Stewart, an understanding of these concepts offers the best route to grasping the true nature of mathematics, in particular the power, beauty, and utility of <i>pure </i>mathematics. No advanced mathematical background is needed (a smattering of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry is helpful) to follow the author's lucid and thought-provoking discussions of such topics as functions, symmetry, axiomatics, counting, topology, hyperspace, linear algebra, real analysis, probability, computers, applications of modern mathematics, and much more.<br />By the time readers have finished this book, they'll have a much clearer grasp of how modern mathematicians look at figures, functions, and formulas and how a firm grasp of the ideas underlying "new math" leads toward a genuine comprehension of the nature of mathematics itself.

This textbook invites the reader to develop a holistic grounding in mathematical finance, where concepts and intuition play as important a role as powerful mathematical tools. Financial interactions are characterized by a vast amount of data and uncertainty; navigating the inherent dangers and hidden opportunities requires a keen understanding of what techniques to apply and when. By exploring the conceptual foundations of options pricing, the author equips readers to choose their tools with a critical eye and adapt to emerging challenges. Introducing the basics of gambles through realistic scenarios, the text goes on to build the core financial techniques of Puts, Calls, hedging, and arbitrage. Chapters on modeling and probability lead into the centerpiece: the Black–Scholes equation. Omitting the mechanics of solving Black–Scholes itself, the presentation instead focuses on an in-depth analysis of its derivation and solutions. Advanced topics that follow include the Greeks, American options, and embellishments. Throughout, the author presents topics in an engaging conversational style. “Intuition breaks” frequently prompt students to set aside mathematical details and think critically about the relevance of tools in context. Mathematics of Finance is ideal for undergraduates from a variety of backgrounds, including mathematics, economics, statistics, data science, and computer science. Students should have experience with the standard calculus sequence, as well as a familiarity with differential equations and probability. No financial expertise is assumed of student or instructor; in fact, the text’s deep connection to mathematical ideas makes it suitable for a math capstone course. A complete set of the author’s lecture videos is available on YouTube, providing a comprehensive supplementary resource for a course or independent study. Instructors who adopt the textbook for their course, please visit http://www.sn.pub/lecturer-material​ to obtain the PDF of a complete solutions manual.

FastAPI is a young yet solid framework that takes advantage of newer Python features in a clean design. As its name implies, FastAPI is indeed fast, rivaling similar frameworks in languages such as Golang. With this practical book, developers familiar with Python will learn how FastAPI lets you accomplish more in less time with less code.Author Bill Lubanovic covers the nuts and bolts of FastAPI development with how-to guides on various topics such as forms, database access, graphics, maps, and more that will take you beyond the basics. This book also includes how-to guides that will get you up to speed on RESTful APIs, data validation, authorization, and performance. With its similarities to frameworks like Flask and Django, you'll find it easy to get started with FastAPI.Through the course of this book, you will:Learn how to build web applications with FastAPIUnderstand the differences between FastAPI, Starlette, and pydanticLearn two features that set FastAPI apart: asynchronous functions and data type checking and validationExamine new features of Python 3.8+, especially type annotationsUnderstand the differences between sync and async PythonLearn how to connect with external APIs and services

This book presents a genetic algorithm that optimizes a grid template pattern detector to find the best point to trade in the SP 500. The pattern detector is based on a template using a grid of weights with a fixed size. The template takes in consideration not only the closing price but also the open, high, and low values of the price during the period under testing in contrast to the traditional methods of analysing only the closing price. Each cell of the grid encompasses a score, and these are optimized by an evolutionary genetic algorithm that takes genetic diversity into consideration through a speciation routine, giving time for each individual of the population to be optimized within its own niche. With this method, the system is able to present better results and improves the results compared with other template approaches. The tests considered real data from the stock market and against state-of-the-art solutions, namely the ones using a grid of weights which does not have a fixed size and non-speciated approaches. During the testing period, the presented solution had a return of 21.3% compared to 10.9% of the existing approaches. The use of speciation was able to increase the returns of some results as genetic diversity was taken into consideration.

Algorithmic trading, once the exclusive domain of institutional players, is now open to small organizations and individual traders using online platforms. The tool of choice for many traders today is Python and its ecosystem of powerful packages. In this practical book, author Yves Hilpisch shows students, academics, and practitioners how to use Python in the fascinating field of algorithmic trading.You'll learn several ways to apply Python to different aspects of algorithmic trading, such as backtesting trading strategies and interacting with online trading platforms. Some of the biggest buy- and sell-side institutions make heavy use of Python. By exploring options for systematically building and deploying automated algorithmic trading strategies, this book will help you level the playing field.Set up a proper Python environment for algorithmic tradingLearn how to retrieve financial data from public and proprietary data sourcesExplore vectorization for financial analytics with NumPy and pandasMaster vectorized backtesting of different algorithmic trading strategiesGenerate market predictions by using machine learning and deep learningTackle real-time processing of streaming data with socket programming toolsImplement automated algorithmic trading strategies with the OANDA and FXCM trading platforms

Master the math needed to excel in data science and machine learning. If you’re a data scientist who lacks a math or scientific background or a developer who wants to add data domains to your skillset, this is your book. Author Hadrien Jean provides you with a foundation in math for data science, machine learning, and deep learning.
Through the course of this book, you’ll learn how to use mathematical notation to understand new developments in the field, communicate with your peers, and solve problems in mathematical form. You’ll also understand what’s under the hood of the algorithms you’re using.
Learn how to:
Use Python and Jupyter notebooks to plot data, represent equations, and visualize space transformations
Read and write math notation to communicate ideas in data science and machine learning
Perform descriptive statistics and preliminary observation on a dataset
Manipulate vectors, matrices, and tensors to use machine learning and deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow or Keras
Explore reasons behind a broken model and be prepared to tune and fix it
Choose the right tool or algorithm for the right data problem

為何習近平要收緊私企政策，壯大國有經濟？
為何蘇聯東歐各國的共產政權因經濟崩潰而紛紛垮台時，中國仍屹立不搖？

　　許成鋼透過「制度基因」的架構，解釋中西憲政發展與極權演變的前因與後果。

　　本書探討中國制度和共產極權主義制度的起源和演變，並引入「制度基因」這個分析概念，以研究從蘇俄來的制度基因如何與中國帝制的制度基因融合，創造出具有中國特色且持久的極權主義政權。制度基因是不斷自我複製並影響制度演變的基本制度要素，是可以實證識別的。

　　作者首先分析共產極權主義意識形態在歐洲興起，並在俄國的制度基因基礎上產生出極權主義制度。然後分析中國帝制制度基因的起源和演變，著重這些制度基因如何與蘇俄共產國際引入到中國的共產極權主義制度基因相結合，使中共得以在中國建立極權制。接著討論中國大躍進、文化大革命時期的制度變化，分析在蘇俄極權制度基因和中國傳統制度基因的基礎上，如何產生出中國特色的區域管理的極權主義制度，以及這個制度如何使得中國的改革開放獲得經濟快速發展，不僅挽救中共，而且使中國成為極權主義超級大國。

　　中國共產極權制的大發展應當使人們回想起米塞斯近八十年前對遏制極權主義努力失敗的警告。要扭轉這一趨勢，深入理解極權主義是必不可少的一步。

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　　為什麼中國會成為一個極權制國家？中國的共產主義與蘇聯的共產主義之間有何聯繫？是什麼導致了它們的差異？中國共產黨在未來會如何發展？在這本大膽而嚴謹的著作中，許成鋼透過深刻的歷史和經濟分析，對這些問題及更多相關問題提供了極為精彩的答案。──Eric Maskin（諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、哈佛大學校級亞當斯講座教授）

　　為什麼民主在某些國家蓬勃發展，而在其他國家卻未能如此？許多人曾預期中國的迅速崛起會導致其擁抱民主，但事實並非如此。許成鋼在這本發人深省的書中提出，原因在於他稱之為「制度基因」的根本因素，例如中國的帝國傳統和對個人自由和產權的限制。透過與最偉大思想家的對話，許應用制度基因的框架解釋了民主在西方的發展及其在俄羅斯的失敗。可以說，這些問題是當今最重要的議題之一。任何對這些問題感興趣的人都會發現這本書是必讀之作。──Oliver Hart（諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、哈佛大學校級蓋瑟講座教授）

　　我們常聽到人們談論中國的創新能力、其國家資本主義、市場體系或其現代化。然而，這本發人深省的書提出了不同的觀點。通過歷史分析、制度分析和經濟分析，本書論證了儘管有鄧小平發動的經濟改革，中國的政治和經濟體系依然是極權主義的。許成鋼認為，共產統治不僅改變了制度，而且以高度持久的方式改變了文化的許多重要方面；不理解中國的「極權制度基因」就無法理解其今天的體系。這些基因塑造了當前中國的經濟、社會生活和共產黨統治。任何對中國及其正在形成的複雜世界秩序感興趣的人都會發現這是必讀之作。──Daron Acemoglu（諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、麻省理工學院院級講座教授）

　　許成鋼以鋒利的視角剖析了現代中國極權主義的歷史和制度基因。他提供了對當代中國的治理如何從其帝制和俄羅斯布爾什維克主義的根源中發展而來的全新理解。這部歷史和政治經濟分析的傑作將立即成為任何關心中國政治體制的人必讀的權威著作。憲政自由在中國是否有機會？本書應成為關心此問題的人的必讀之作。——Darrell Duffie（史丹佛大學管理兼金融學亞當斯傑出講座教授）

　　許成鋼，這位曾撰寫關於中國經濟奇蹟背後的制度基礎的經典論文的著名經濟學家，如今為我們帶來了關於中國「區域治理極權主義」制度根源的權威分析。透過對歷史和俄國革命影響的分析，許成鋼精彩地解釋了中國在二十世紀未能實現憲政的原因。中國千年的帝制比絕對君主制更加專制，這幫助了布爾什維克制度移植和融合到中國，並創造了中國獨特的極權主義形式。這是一部深刻且極富思想性的著作，對於理解當代中國至關重要。──Gerard Roland（加州大學柏克萊分校經濟學兼政治學摩里斯·考克斯傑出講座教授）

　　世界上最大的生物不是鯨魚，而是一種名叫「奧氏蜜環菌」的巨大且鮮為人知的地下真菌。同樣，正如許成鋼在這本令人震驚且重要的書中所展示的那樣，最大的政治有機體是共產極權制，其「制度基因」在不同的時間和地點重複出現，但總是具有關鍵作用。華麗的詞藻掩蓋了無情的暴力，人類被降級為被支配的俘虜；享有自主權的不是人，而是這個系統。然而，許成鋼並非一個滿懷幻想的陰謀論者。出身於該系統並曾受教於哈佛的他，為所述觀點提供了冷靜的分析。──Perry Link（林培瑞，普林斯頓大學東亞研究榮休教授）

　　許教授提出制度基因之概念，向上追溯中華帝制之制度基因，詳細審視科舉與儒教之影響，並舉以與沙俄及布爾什維克之極權主義相比較，清楚詮釋了中共治下中國經濟改革之成功與局限。──明居正（國立臺灣大學政治學系名譽教授）

　　本書是許教授多年來對於中國經濟發展集大成之著作，並且加入歷史的縱深，以共產主義的起源和中國共產黨崛起之脈絡，說明極權主義與專制主義下經濟發展的取向。──趙相科（國立清華大學經濟學系教授）

Journalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011.
The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living embodiment of a global megabrand. It was hard to imagine that anyone could fill his shoes--especially not Tim Cook, the intensely private executive who many thought of as Apple's "operations drone."
But seven years later, as journalist Leander Kahney reveals in this definitive book, things at Apple couldn't be better. Its stock has nearly tripled, making it the world's first trillion dollar company. Under Cook's principled leadership, Apple is pushing hard into renewable energy, labor and environmentally-friendly supply chains, user privacy, and highly-recyclable products. From the massive growth of the iPhone to lesser-known victories like the Apple Watch, Cook is leading Apple to a new era of success.
Drawing on access with several Apple insiders, Kahney tells the inspiring story of how one man attempted to replace someone irreplacable, and--through strong, humane leadership, supply chain savvy, and a commitment to his values--succeeded more than anyone had thought possible.

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a single weekend—and he’s done it seven times. Million Dollar Weekend will show you how.
Now is the best time in history for entrepreneurship. More than ever, the world needs new businesses and it’s cheaper than ever to create them.
And, let’s be frank: most day jobs suck. People spend too much time doing too much work for too little money—and they know it. They want out.
But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few entrepreneurs actually running them?
Ask yourself:
Do you want to work for yourself, or start a side-hustle, but it all feels too risky and unpredictable?
Have you spent time or money on things like websites and logos, but still have no customers?
Are you brainstorming endlessly and waiting for the perfect idea to strike?
All those Frequent Excuses are solvable. The plan is simple—so simple it can be completed in a single weekend, but so powerful that Kagan has used it to build seven businesses now worth more than $1 million:
Find your Creator’s Courage to overcome your fear and have fun!
Use the "Million Dollar Weekend" Process to get customers EXCITED to give you money.
Automate your business so it can grow while you sleep.
By Monday, you’ll have a market-tested, scalable business idea and you’ll be a entrepreneur on the path to seven figures. Million Dollar Weekend is the path to creating your dream life and attaining financial freedom. LFG.

You've landed a job. Now what?
No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted.
The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules—the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize.
The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error.
Until now.
In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as:
How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities?
How do I build relationships when I’m working remotely?
How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy?
The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.

Fully updated to Elixir 1.15, this authoritative bestseller reveals how Elixir tackles problems of scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability.

Thousands of developers have learned to build applications in Elixir by using Saša Juric’s Elixir in Action. You’ll skip the programming basics or 101 introductions; this book builds on your existing knowledge to get you quickly writing real Elixir code. Along the way, you'll develop an appreciation for, and considerable skill in, functional and concurrent programming.

Inside Elixir in Action, Third Edition you’ll find:

Updates for Elixir 1.15 Elixir modules, functions, and type system Functional and concurrent programming Introduction to distributed system design Creating deployable releases
Fully updated to Elixir 1.15, this book contains new coverage of working with application configuration and the latest OTP releases. It teaches you the underlying principles and functional concepts of Elixir, and how each piece fits into the bigger picture of building production-ready systems with Elixir, Erlang, and the OTP framework.

Foreword by Francesco Cesarini.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

With best-in-class fault tolerance and concurrency, a pragmatic approach to functional programming, and the power to operate at scale, Elixir is the perfect choice for mission-critical software. Start reading Elixir in Action, and you’ll quickly understand why Elixir creator José Valim says it “...tops the list” of Elixir books.

About the book

Elixir in Action, Third Edition teaches you how to create distributed applications and server-side systems using Elixir and the Erlang VM. This Third Edition from Elixir expert Saša Juric is fully updated to include the latest features of Elixir 1.15. In it, you’ll master the foundations of the language, discover how the OTP framework minimizes tedious boilerplate code, and explore numerous examples that ensure you’re learning hands-on.

What's inside

Elixir modules, functions, and type system Functional and concurrent programming Introduction to distributed system design Creating deployable releases

About the reader

For programmers comfortable with client/server applications. No experience with Elixir, Erlang, or functional programming required.

About the author

Saša Juric uses Elixir and Erlang to build fault-tolerant, scalable, highly concurrent systems.

Technical editor on this book was Marius Butuc.

Table of Contents

PART 1 Functional Elixir
1 First steps
2 Building blocks
3 Control flow
4 Data abstractions
PART 2 CONCURRENT ELIXIR
5 Concurrency primitives
6 Generic server processes
7 Building a concurrent system
8 Fault tolerance basics
9 Isolating error effects
10 Beyond GenServer
PART 3 PRODUCTION
11 Working with components
12 Building a distributed system
13 Running the system

At last, for a generation that's materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich , Ramit Sethi's 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want to do what Sethi says, it is based around the four pillars of personal finance— banking, saving, budgeting, and investing—and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship.

Sethi covers how to save time by not wasting it managing money; the guns and cars myth of credit cards; how to negotiate like an Indian—the conversation begins with "no"; why "Budgeting Doesn't Have to Suck!"; how to get things rolling—for real—with only $20; what most people don't understand about taxes; how to get a CEO to take you out to lunch; how to avoid the Super Mario Brothers trap by making your savings work harder than you do; the difference between cheap and frugal; the hidden relationship between money and food. Not to mention his first key lesson: Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Integrated with his website, where readers can use interactive charts, follow up on the latest information, and join the community, it is a hip blueprint to building wealth and financial security.

Every month, 175,000 unique visitors come to Ramit Sethi's website, Iwillteachyoutoberich.com, to discover the path to financial freedom. They praise him thoughtfully ("Your site summarizes everything I want with my life—to be rich in finances, rich in experience, rich in family blessings," Dan Esparza ) and effusively ("Dude, you rock. I love this site!" Richard Wu ). The press has caught on, too: "Ramit Sethi is a rising star in the world of personal finance writing . . . one singularly attuned to the sensibilities of his generation. his style is part frat boy and part silicon Valley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). His writing is smart, his voice is full of attitude, and his ideas are uncommonly sound and refreshingly hype-free.

A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In these pages, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.
Featuring an introduction by Laurene Powell Jobs and edited by Leslie Berlin, this beautiful handbook is designed to inspire readers to make their own “wonderful somethings” that move the world forward.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon

“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney

“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, co-founder, OpenAI

The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks. He separates this movement, which aims to provide a solid foundation for everything from social networks to artificial intelligence to virtual worlds, from cryptocurrency speculation—a distinction he calls “the computer vs. the casino.”
 
With lucid and compelling prose—drawing from a twenty-five-year career in the software industry—Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the “read” era, in which early networks democratized information. In the “read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.
 
Read Write Own is a must-read for anyone—internet users, business leaders, creators, entrepreneurs—who wants to understand where we’ve been and where we’re going. It provides a vision for a better internet and a playbook to navigate and build the future.

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Instituteas Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.Some of the biggest problems facing the worldawar, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradationaare essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, "Thinking in Systems" helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

The first book to tell the story of the ways in which design is reshaping life in the twenty-first century
User Friendly opens with two very different stories. In 1979, a series of failures leads to the catastrophic accident at Three Mile Island; one of the most critical of these failures is a design flawa key indicator in the plants control room is hidden from the operators sight line. In 2018, a giant, futuristic Apple campus is built on the back of sales of the iPhone, the most user-friendly device ever made. The two stories are part of one larger narrativethe story of the surprisingly recent innovation of putting users at the center of design.
In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has beenand continues to beremade according to the principles of a relatively obscure discipline: user experience design. Its spread is intertwined with the sweeping changes of the last century, from womens rights to the Great Depression and World War II and the rise of the digital era. Its ideals have shaped the world around us, from washing machines to self-driving cars to social media.
Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first timeand youll never interact with technology the same way again.

In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.
Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience.
The result is a book that's both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.