You Can Win

Rebecca Giblin / Cory Doctorow

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.In ...

Ashlee Vance

A momentous look at the private companies driving a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon MuskWith the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA or nation stat...

Ben Smith

If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dotcom crash but before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech's center of gravity. There, within a few squ...

Ali Greene / Tamara Sanderson

The future of work is here. You can no longer survive by copying and pasting old office techniques into a digital environment; it's exhausting, unproductive, and unsuccessful. There is a better way! Are you ready to rethink everything you know about how remote works?Drawing on their years of experience working at remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automattic, plus dozens of interv...

Ken Kupchik / Emily Ann Hill

u003cpu003eAhhh, the modern workplace: a cauldron of stress and anxiety. From the moment we accept a new role, we're thrown into a world of competing personalities, shifting protocols, and an endless stream of emails, Slack messages, and Zoom calls, all of which serve to distract us from the things we truly want to be doing, like eating Thai food and sleeping until noon.u003c/p...

Mark Bergen

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy--by a leading tech journalistAcross the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the site, a technical feat unmatched in the history of computing. YouTube inven...

Shiv Khera

Results Are Rewarded, Efforts Aren'tBestselling author Shiv Khera reveals the secrets of every successful sales professional, and explains clearly and simply why 'Results Are Rewarded, Efforts Aren't'.You Can Sell teaches you how to gain a thorough and in-depth knowledge of the business world, a clearer understanding of the tasks at hand and, ultimately, how to sell your way to...