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Digital design, not strategy, is what separates winners from losers in the digital economy. So argue the authors of "Designed for Digital," one of Forbes's Top Ten Technology Books of 2019. Until midnight tomorrow, get the Kindle edition for $1.99: https://amzn.to/40zSe5L

"The earth generates enough #food and enough resources for everyone. But the powerful and the wealthy want to profit off this abundance, so they make food scarce for most people around the globe so they can charge money for it. It’s important to remember that hunger is 'man-made.' #Hunger is caused by inequality, discrimination, greed, and hoarding. The wealthy want to pay low wages to keep their profits high. So, they pay people just enough to keep people desperate where they will take the minimum amount of salary just so they can buy bread and feed their kids. This dynamic keeps people poor and hungry and fattens the pockets of the wealthy." The MIT Press

"Combine a progressive attitude with a business need for talent, and it isn't so hard to change people's thinking about diversity, equity, and inclusion or get them to act." An excerpt from "The Leaders You Need" by Karen Brown demonstrates how partnering with motivated colleagues and community members can advance efforts to build more diverse teams. https://bit.ly/4gXvlPC MIT Sloan Management Review #DEI

“The highest form of research is essentially play.” – N. V. Scarfe … and if that’s valid, then Seth Giddings’ new book on toy theory, published by The MIT Press ⬇️, will be most meta—can‘t wait to read this, feels like a missing puzzle piece—congrats, Seth!

"Far from being a language just for hackers, cryptography is vital to the security technologies we use daily, from search histories to gym locker codes [...] In just five chapters, Louridas cracks the code on distilling an intimi­­­dating smorgasbord of topics into a digestible and delightful package." —Scientific American "Cryptography," the latest volume in our Essential Knowledge Series, is available now: https://bit.ly/4eaZKr3

Explore the digital frontiers of management and tools for organizational success with new books from the MIT Press: 📖 In "The Leaders You Need," Karen Brown's innovative framework demonstrates how to identify and dismantle the barriers to appointing the diverse leaders and managers your organization needs to thrive: https://bit.ly/4fguEzb 📖 "The Demand Revolution" explores key strategic plays that companies can use to win over competition, create long-lasting competitive advantages, and meet the demand for sustainable solutions: https://bit.ly/4fAiZvX 📖 "The Skills-Powered Organization" provides a step-by-step guide for both new and seasoned leaders to show just how to future-proof organizations for the post–fourth industrial revolution world: https://bit.ly/4fhb3Pu 📖 In "Thrive," authors Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose bring over two decades of experience at the forefront of the digital transformation of business and society to explain the positive potential of AI: https://bit.ly/3zCCHY4 Ravin Jesuthasan, CFA, FRSA Tanuj Kapilashrami Nicolai Broby Eckert Caroline Kastbjerg

Will #AI help humanity or harm it? Gary Marcus, a prominent researcher and cognitive scientist and the author of "Taming Silicon Valley," has sounded the alarm over Big Tech's role in the future of AI. We invite you to take part in a hybrid event with Marcus at The New York Public Library, where he will be joined by investigative journalist Julia Angwin. 📆 Tuesday, November 12th 🕔 7 - 8 p.m. Details and registration: https://lnkd.in/gTjus7hb

The articles in this issue are bound by our sense of editorial and intellectual plurality. Not the plurality of inflections within a given orthodoxy but the questions raised, or sparks that may fly, when intellectual worlds collide and rub shoulders. Through such encounters, we hope that unimagined possibilities that help to solve seemingly intractable social dilemmas or envision new futures may emerge. Download free article: "Design and Making Things Better: Relating the Pragmatism of John Dewey and Richard McKeon in Design Inquiry" https://lnkd.in/eC_eZwsq Featured contributors: Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Joseph M. Bayeck, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Klaus Krippendorff, Dr Brian Dixon, Patrycja Kaszynska, Jeong Hye Kim, Bow Yiying WU, Dr. Karthikeya Acharya, Elif Şen Himaki, PhD, Bruce Brown, Ricardo Lopez-Leon, Fernando Secomandi, Tania Allen #gamedesign #ethnography #designresearch #waste #pragmatism #servicedesign #metaphor Sponsored by Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and published by The MIT Press

Not everyone fears the AI revolution. In fact, the authors of "Thrive" believe that AI can positively impact our daily lives and nudge us into living richer, happier, healthier and more productive lives. Anindya Ghose explains how on "Keen On." https://lnkd.in/gtzAx4fA

"The idea that some communities — usually those that were either too poor or too melanated, too rural or too coastal, too undesirable — needed to be sacrificed for the greater good, or to provide some intrinsic value to society, continues to this day." William J. Barber III on why marginalized communities pay the highest price for #climatechange: https://lnkd.in/g_zppx6m