“We all love a good story, a concise explanation of how the world works. We all love an easy buck. Temptation has driven human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we’ve learned from history and, this time, we can’t be fooled. Then it happens again. This is how it happened in 1929.”
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
“At the core of the most extreme dangers from AI is the stark fact that there is no particular reason that AI should share our view of ethics and morality.”
― Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
― Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
“Mentor. Patron. Sponsor. Ally. Teacher. Master. Guru. Inspiration. There are so many names for it…because it’s a role defined by so many different roles. But what matters is that we are the candle that lights another, which lights another, which lights another. Because through this whole worlds are illuminated, delivered from darkness.”
― Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
― Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
“The arrival fallacy is the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives.”
― The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
― The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
“Silicon Valley is awash in wooden Montessori toys and shrouded in total screen bans. Parents at work talk about how they don't allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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