Books

Livio’s Brilliant Blunders was decent.

Fox’s The Game Changer didn’t have much concrete advice. Mostly it was a sales pitch for motivation engineering without saying much about how to do it within an organization.

Drucker’s Management Challenges for the 21st Century was a mixed bag, and included as much large-scale economic speculation as it did management advice.

Adams’ How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big was a very mixed bag of advice, which then tries unconvincingly to say it isn’t a book of advice.

Favorite tracks or albums discovered this month

• Ryan Power, “Sweetheart”
• Tobias Jesso Jr., “Hollywood”
• Jim Guthrie, “The Prettiest Weed”
• Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms

Stuff I wrote elsewhere

• Interview: Bill Hibbard on Ethical Artificial Intelligence
• 2014 in review (MIRI annual review)