Steven Pinker – Enlightnent now
Considering his plea for scientific thinking, Pinker is remarkably confident on (1) hard to assess long term risks and (2) strong realism (in the epistomological sense).
To be productive, choose goals you care for and aim for a sustainable balance of efforts
Chris Bailey – The productivity project
A bunch of unstructured and badly documented tests by a frat boy, who presents his efforts as “experiments”.
The success of Uber and AirBnB is (partly) due to structural exploration of legal limits
Most illustrative are the descriptions of failed competitors, which show importance of both luck and ruthlessness.