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Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson challenges the lone-genius story and asks how networks, partial insights, mistakes, and neighbouring possibilities make innovation possible.
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What’s Our Problem?
Tim Urban uses drawings, analogy, and a first-principles framework to examine polarization, group identity, and the habits that make public disagreement harder.
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Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan argues that media alter the scale, pace, and patterns of social life, making the form of a tool as consequential as its content.