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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Links from week of 7/13
My Thoughts on Why New York Should Block the Comcast/Time Warner Deal (Daily News)
I’ll be leading a discussion on Net Neutrality and the Politics of Entrepreneurship next month (General Assembly)
My Running Mate, Zephyr Teachout and I are among New York’s “Winners” this Week (City & State)
Jonathan Zhou’s profile on me (Epoch Times) Read more of this blog post »
I’ll be leading a discussion on Net Neutrality and the Politics of Entrepreneurship next month (General Assembly)
My Running Mate, Zephyr Teachout and I are among New York’s “Winners” this Week (City & State)
Jonathan Zhou’s profile on me (Epoch Times) Read more of this blog post »
More books by Tim Wu…
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Tim Wu
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Charlotte's review
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity:
"We need Lina Khan back like yesterday!"
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Tim Wu
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CatReader's review
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity:
"Tim Wu is an American lawyer specializing in antitrust and professor at Columbia law school; his career highlights including advisory stints at the Federal Trade Commission and the National Economic Council under the Biden administration. He has also"
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Tim Wu
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David Dayen's review
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity:
"We just did a podcast on this. I really enjoyed the attempt to build an intellectual framework for the anti-monopoly movement."
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Ja Quan’s review
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
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Mike Hartnett’s review
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
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The in-depth solutions are the subject of my academic work and teaching. I regard a book like this is not a good medium for the full presentation of t
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| I read both this and Beginners, the unedited version. Both are so good as to be in the top rank of books. With a few exceptions, however, I think the edited stories are overall better as a literary achievement -- so distinct, sharp moody and mysterio ...more | |
“As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
“It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.”
― The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
― The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
“It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Around the Year i...: 02. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable | 125 | 598 | Nov 26, 2020 06:29PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Susan T for 2022 | 15 | 52 | Dec 31, 2022 12:14PM |
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays. Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself -- not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing on was foolish.”
― The Accidental Tourist
― The Accidental Tourist
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.”
― The Accidental Tourist
― The Accidental Tourist
“It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
“As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
“As one might gather from a painting of him scowling in a tall stovepipe hat, Day saw himself as a businessman, not a journalist. ''He needed a newspaper not to reform, not to arouse, but to push the printing business of Benjamin H. Day.''
Day's idea was to try selling a paper for a penny - the going price for many everyday items, like soap or brushes. At that price, he felt sure he could capture a much larger audience than his 6-cent rivals. But what made the prospect risky, potentially even suicidal, was that Day would then be selling his paper at a loss. What day was contemplating was a break with the traditional strategy for making profit: selling at a price higher than the cost of production. He would instead rely on a different but historically significant business model: reselling the attention of his audience, or advertising. What Day understood-more firmly, more clearly than anyone before him-was that while his readers may have thought themselves his customers, they were in fact his product.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Day's idea was to try selling a paper for a penny - the going price for many everyday items, like soap or brushes. At that price, he felt sure he could capture a much larger audience than his 6-cent rivals. But what made the prospect risky, potentially even suicidal, was that Day would then be selling his paper at a loss. What day was contemplating was a break with the traditional strategy for making profit: selling at a price higher than the cost of production. He would instead rely on a different but historically significant business model: reselling the attention of his audience, or advertising. What Day understood-more firmly, more clearly than anyone before him-was that while his readers may have thought themselves his customers, they were in fact his product.”
― The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Reading For Pleasure Book Club
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