What's it about? Taming Silicon Valley (2024) takes you on an urgent journey through the treacherous landscape of artificial intelligence and Big Tech’s growing control over our lives. You’ll discover how tech giants manipulate both public opinion and government policy while learning about the real possibilities and dangers of AI development. Armed with practical solutions and concrete policy proposals, you’ll gain the knowledge to fight for a future where AI serves humanity rather than controls it. Artificial intelligence shapes your daily experiences in subtle ways. Each time you open your phone, read your emails, or browse social media, AI systems work quietly in the background, making suggestions and adjusting what you see. These small interactions add up to create big changes in how you process information, make decisions, and view the world around you. In this lesson, you’ll find out about the real capabilities of current AI systems and see exactly what goes on behind those...

What's it about? Getting It Done When You’re Depressed (2021) offers 50 practical strategies to break the cycle of unproductivity and regain control of your life while managing depression. It provides step-by-step guidance on shifting your mindset and creating a daily structure tailored to your needs. With its actionable advice, it will empower you to overcome mental health challenges and live a more fulfilling life. Depression can feel like it consumes every corner of your life. It saps your energy and dampens your mood. It can leave you doubting your abilities and questioning your worth. Even the smallest tasks seem overwhelming, and the idea of productivity may feel completely out of reach. But living with depression doesn’t mean you can’t take meaningful action. By learning strategies to keep moving forward even on the toughest days, you can find ways to work alongside it. The truth is, the way you approach your days and manage your actions can make a profound difference to h...

What's it about? The Practice of Not Thinking (2021) is a guide to quieting the mental noise that distracts us from living fully in the present. Drawing on principles of Zen wisdom, it offers practical techniques to short-circuit overthinking, reduce stress, and cultivate greater tranquility. Imagine starting your day full of energy and determination, ready to tackle your goals. But as the hours pass, your mind begins to wander. You find yourself overthinking simple tasks, second-guessing your abilities, and replaying yesterday’s trivial mistake. Before you know it, the momentum you started with has vanished, replaced by doubt and distraction. Have you ever felt that your mind is so active, so noisy, that it seems to be working against you? It tempts you to abandon your plans and traps you in an endless negative feedback loop. That, unfortunately, is a hardwired trait: your brain is programmed to seek out stimulation, and negative thoughts grab your attention far more powerfully ...

What's it about? Do Walk (2021) explores the transformative power of daily walking, offering a simple yet profound practice for reconnecting with both the world around you and yourself. It highlights how walking can enhance physical health, clear the mind, and spark creativity. Through this reflective guide, you’re invited to embrace the calming rhythm of walking to improve your overall well-being and discover new perspectives. How would you feel if you could step outside every morning, leaving behind the noise of the world to greet the day with your own two feet? Close your eyes as you picture yourself walking along a quiet path. The air is cool and crisp. You notice the first signs of autumn. Your steps are steady, unhurried. The world feels different – calmer, more open. Each footfall connects you to the earth and to yourself, offering a sense of grounding that feels increasingly rare in a fast-paced world. A morning walk is more than a way to stretch your legs – it’s a chanc...

What's it about? Capital Ideas (1991) presents a journey through the groundbreaking ideas that shaped modern finance. It reveals the brilliant economists and daring financial theorists who transformed Wall Street with concepts like diversification and market efficiency – and highlights the origins of the financial systems we rely on today, offering a deeper understanding of the forces that drive our economy. Most professions are resistant to change – and that was certainly the case for Wall Street money managers in the twentieth century. For the most part, they didn’t want some brainy kid from a university telling them that the calculations and formulas in his doctorate paper proved there was a better way to do their job. Still, this is more or less what happened. But it didn’t happen overnight. As you’ll see in this lesson, it was a gradual process that spanned decades – and that was eventually pushed past the point of no return with the dawn of the computer age. This is the ...

What's it about? Supremacy (2024) takes you inside the high-stakes race to build Artificial General Intelligence. From groundbreaking innovations to the hidden dangers of AI monopolies, you can see how the quest for smarter machines can reshape the world – for better or worse. It raises the important question, are we on the verge of a technological utopia, or heading toward a future full of unforeseen risks? Technology waits for no one, or so it would seem. Whether it’s the introduction of social media, or unleashing artificial intelligence on the general public, we keep moving forward with little talk of pressing the brakes and assessing the damage. But a lot of experts agree that AI is different from other technologies. It has the power to reshape society. In this lesson, you’ll find out how the race to achieve human-like AI made a big breakthrough in 2017. You’ll also see how the people behind this revolution saw their utopian ideals whither under the influence of the big tech...