Sam Gilbert Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Author: Good Data (https://t.co/l70CeA6ZzI). Researcher: tech & politics @BennettInst. Advisor @StateUpHQ. Bestyrelsesmedlem @DataFGood. Previously @manypets_uk
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael LewisSam Gilbert@Nightingale_P Diane Coyle, Cogs & Monsters Michael Lewis, The Premonition Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law Jamie Susskind, The Digital Republic
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Accidental Tourist
Anne TylerSam GilbertHistorical precedents: 1985: protagonist of Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist uses dishwasher for kitchenware storage, reasoning it is better optimised to the task than cupboards 2017: two-dishwasher solution rolled out in @manypets_uk office kitchens by @guy955i https://t.co/02G6n2Ctgs
Paperback, 2002
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
Eli PariserSam Gilbert@STS_News @doctorow Eli Pariser's The Filter Bubble (2011) feels important in the context of criti-hype & algorithmic harms - such an influential idea, but the evidence base still feels pretty thin.
Paperback, 2012
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beasts
Joyce Carol OatesSam Gilbert@pollymackenzie Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates White Noise, Don DeLillo The World As I found It, Bruce Duffy +1 for Stoner, The Secret History, The Marriage Plot, Decline & Fall
Paperback, 2010
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben HorowitzSam Gilbert@STS_News @gemmamilne To these I would add: Masayoshi Son, "SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision" (2010): https://t.co/6U221vo5Ck Eric Ries, The Lean Startup (2011) Blog posts about "growth hacking" (c.2011-14), eg https://t.co/ObEin6GHFy Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014)
Hardcover, 2014
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonSam GilbertMichael Lewis, The Premonition - courage + brilliance of individuals / civil society = no match for institutional rigidity x political decay Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future - conditional optimism that institutions can rise to the challenge of climate change
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric RiesSam Gilbert@STS_News @gemmamilne To these I would add: Masayoshi Son, "SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision" (2010): https://t.co/6U221vo5Ck Eric Ries, The Lean Startup (2011) Blog posts about "growth hacking" (c.2011-14), eg https://t.co/ObEin6GHFy Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014)
Hardcover, 2011
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Overstory
Richard PowersSam GilbertThe Zuckian dream of a metaverse puts me in mind of the VR game Mastery in Richard Powers' novel The Overstory. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58749529
Paperback, 2019
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Jamie SusskindSam Gilbert@Nightingale_P Diane Coyle, Cogs & Monsters Michael Lewis, The Premonition Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law Jamie Susskind, The Digital Republic
Hardcover, 2022
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The World as I Found It
Bruce DuffySam Gilbert@pollymackenzie Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates White Noise, Don DeLillo The World As I found It, Bruce Duffy +1 for Stoner, The Secret History, The Marriage Plot, Decline & Fall
Paperback, 2010
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book