Ethan Mollick’s One Useful Thing Substack newsletter is widely hailed as one of the best resources for understanding the rapidly evolving world of AI and LLMs. It’s no surprise that his 2024 book, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, is a thoughtful and widely practical guide for engaging with AI, regardless of the reader’s prior…
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After hearing author Hannah Ritchie on Ezra Klein’s podcast, I immediately sought out her recent book. Ritchie serves as the Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World in Data, a non-profit dedicated to using data to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. And in Not the End of World, she uses that data…
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Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World There are two aspects of Tara Isabella Burton’s Strange Rites that commend it to the reading list of anyone interested in modern religious studies or cultural movements in general. First is the author directly addresses a very real and often poorly approached trend. Across the globe, we…
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