Human Culture

In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's change in policy is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years: the rise of personalization.

Humanity is racing to create machine intelligence vastly smarter than the human brain. We will succeed. Blending accessible philosophy with the latest in AI developments, Mind Crime: The Moral Frontier of Artificial Intelligence forces listeners to grapple with the moral questions we can no longer afford to ignore. Are we prepared for the consequences of artificial superintelligence? Will humanity's survival be threatened, perhaps within years? Is digital consciousness possible? Are we sleepwalking into horrific moral catastrophe?

The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought. Offering invaluable insights for parents, educators, and students, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution.

It's STILL the People! Nothing gets done in any organization without the people - the human capital. How well the human capital manages the financial capital and intellectual capital determines the value of any business... so you'd better get the human capital part right. In Going Behind the Numbers, valuation expert Dave Bookbinder continues to unravel ways to better value human capital and determine how it can be quantified to truly represent what every organization's people actually bring to the table. If you think it's a simple matter of calculating salaries and benefits - the typical ...

We've been conditioned to separate our personal and professional selves, but work is fundamental to our human experience. Love and worth have a place in work because our humanity and authentic identities make our work better. This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study to better understand feelings of love and worth in the workplace and introduces three paths that allow individuals to create the professional experience they desire for themselves, their teams, and their clients.

In a world where change is the only constant, organizations face unprecedented challenges. With 77% of HR practitioners reporting perpetual organizational flux, the need for adept change management has never been more pressing. Jennifer Powers, renowned Master Certified Coach and international speaker, presents the ultimate guide for corporate HR professionals and leaders: Good Shift! How to Deal with Change Before it Deals with You. Building upon the success of her bestseller Oh, Shift! How to Change your Life with a Little F in Shift, Powers delivers an indispensable playbook for managing...

This is an audiobook about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right and why they might be wrong.

Companies from around the world are doing their best to achieve greater levels of diversity in senior leadership positions. However, their efforts are frequently unsuccessful, meeting widespread cultural resistance and pushback. Only a few firms create lasting change in the makeup of their boards and executive leadership. So, what sets these successful firms apart from their less successful counterparts? Diversity Intelligence provides listeners with a road map to achieving impactful change in the areas of diversity and inclusion.

Ask anyone from the CEO to the shipping clerk about the organization’s most valuable asset, and you’ll get the same answer: “The people!” However, when it comes to the valuation of that organization, especially in terms of intangible assets, items like patents and trademarks wind up seeming to be more valuable. How can that be? Simple: They’re more quantifiable. In The NEW ROI: Return on Individuals, we delve into placing a more quantifiable value on the human capital asset – the most valuable asset in every organization. Additionally, we explore universal ways to promote even ...

Sociology celebrates the popular arts! TV, Sunday comics, monster movies, professional wrestling, dumpstering, college football, bathroom graffiti, strippers, telephone pranksters, Peeping Toms, class clowns, the college sorority, the streetcorner preacher, the drive-in movie, good and evil, and more — see familiar, everyday people and things in an offbeat, surprising way, and blow your mind to what sociologists have discovered about how you shape the world, and how the world shapes you.

Unfiltered True Short Stories from the Modern Business Are you tired of wading through corporate self-help books filled with recycled advice and worn-out clichés? Cubicles, Coffee, and Corporate Candy shatters the mold, delivering an unapologetically raw look into the real stories that define today's corporate world.Step Behind the Cubicle Curtain Author Mohamad Chahine compiles a riveting collection of 90 authentic short stories, each one a window into the unfiltered realities of modern business life. These aren't hypothetical scenarios or overblown success tales—they're genuine ...

You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional physical space. But as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global connection.

Dan Schawbel guides the next generation of leaders to create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered to grow strong interpersonal skills rather than relying on technology. Based on Schawbel's exclusive research studies - featuring the perspectives of more than 2,000 managers and employees across different age groups and from the US, UK, China, India, Brazil, and other countries - Back to Human reveals why electronic and virtual communication, though useful, actually contributes to a stronger sense of isolation at work than ever before.

The trained brain, eyes, and ears of comedian and author Lou Santini have noticed a disturbing shift in human behavior over the last 15+ years. A sense of entitlement. Boorish, rude, obnoxious behavior. A constant need for attention ironically coupled with a need to “be left alone”. A desire to “be treated the same as everyone else”, stupidly combined with the mindset of, “I’m special, so treat me accordingly”. A lack of manners, poise, decorum and common sense. These are symptoms of “amateur” behavior. And it is permeating society in all ages, sexes, and cultures. “...

If you want to learn key AI concepts to get you quickly up to speed with all things AI, then pay attention...This audiobook covers everything from machine learning to robotics and the internet of things. By the time you finish listening, you will be aware of what artificial neural networks are, how gradient descent and back propagation work, and what deep learning is. You will also learn a comprehensive history of AI, from the first invention of automations in antiquity to the driver-less cars of today.

Virtue is more than a word: it's a way for us all to live, a way to flourish as human beings. And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen relationships, and foster success in business. Picking up where the acclaimed Exception to the Rule left off, Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical Greek virtues—Trust, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, and Hope—with authoritative science that can help you achieve the highest performance.

Practical. Challenging. Well-researched and unflinchingly candid, this book—based on a decade-long study—provides leaders at all levels an actionable framework for building cultures that support higher levels of engagement and innovation. Choose Love, Not Fear challenges listeners to overcome a history of fear-based processes that unnecessarily render us less capable, restrict what we see, and narrow what we believe is possible. This book shows how the best leaders build teams where love and positive emotion are the foundation of making the rhetoric of engagement a reality.

If you want to learn about the internet of things, then pay attention.... You were just woken up in the middle of the night by smart light bulbs in your house blasting at full power for no reason. Your bleary-eyed investigation shows they tried to download a firmware update and failed. At that moment, Alexa starts quietly whispering sweet nonsense to herself in the corner and Roomba starts slamming into the nearest wall. What do you do? Is your house haunted or have the machines finally started an uprising? Neither - it’s just another day in the IoT wonderland.

YOUR BUSINESS IS LOSING MONEY RIGHT NOW...a lot of money, due to GRIEF’S INFLUENCE in your workplace. And this can only happen for one or more of a few reasons:~ You mistakenly believe that grief has no impact on your business ~ You just ignore it, because facing mortality is uncomfortable ~ You believe outsourcing it to an EAP will fix an emotionally troubled employee ~ You are unwisely indifferent to your most valuable assets outside the job Were you aware that even before the devastating impacts of COVID, available studies show: American Businesses Lose Over $100 Billion in Revenue ...

Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement.