The Inevitable

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1. podlpDec 2025
   As a counterpoint, consider reading Kevin Kelly’s “The Inevitable.” I also avoid most social media and have an aversion to all things “smart,” but these may actually be “inevitable.” In a capitalist society, these forces feel inevitable because there’s no Anubis balancing the scales. Only local decisions, often short-sighted. When demand is being created in a market, people will compete to capture it any way possible. Some of those ideas will last, and others will be a flash in the pan. It’s not clear to me that if you reran the tapes of history again, you’d get a significantly different outcome that didn’t include things like short-form video to exploit attention.

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2. m463Aug 2025
   This all reminds me of this really interesting book "The Inevitable" by kevin kelly.

   It had a fascinating look into the future, and in this case one insight in particular.

   It basically said that in the future, answers would be cheap and plentiful, and questions would be valuable.

   With AI I think this will become more true every day.

   Maybe AI can answer anything, but won't we still need people to ask the right questions?

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inevitable_(book)

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3. joddystreetJul 2018
   What is your area of expertise and what books still blew your mind?

   I wanted to know the books (research, blog, podcast, really any medium of knowledge) that - [] made you change your mind about strongly held beliefs in your area of expertise or [] strongly held personally views or [] helped you build a point of view or [] further expanded your thought process or [] made you go - "didn't know that was possible"

   The books could be from any field - related/ unrelated, what matters is how it improved you in building better mental models about your expertise. [] What would be THE ONE book you would suggest? [] Your Top Picks (any number of, but be very selective)

   I would say my area of expertise would be building products and managing teams (I have found 4 companies to date, as a tech-cofounder) - my list - -- The One - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari -- Top Picks - - The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly - Bhagavad Gita - Hooked, Nir Eyal - Inspired, Marty Cagan - The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz - Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson - The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton m. christensen - Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse - Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely - The Little Prince, - Shoe Dog, Phil Knight

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4. bob_theslob646Dec 2017
   > Extreme Ownership

   Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

   > Grant

   Ron Chernow

   > Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy

   Dani Rodrik

   > Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

   Andrew Lo

   > The Best Investment Writing, Volume 1: Selected Writing From Leading Investors and Authors

   by Meb Faber (editor),‎ Jason Zweig (contributor),‎ Patrick O’Shaughnessy (contributor),‎ Morgan Housel (contributor),‎ Corey Hoffstein (contributor),‎ Barry Ritholtz (contributor)

   > Janesville

   Amy Goldstein

   > The Man Who Could Be King

   John Miller

   > My Own Liberator

   Dikgang Moseneke

   > Hillbilly Elegy

   J.D. Vance

   > Small Great Things

   Jodi Picoult

   > Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

   Yuval Noah Harari

   > Born to Run

   Bruce Springsteen

   > The Content Trap

   Bharat Anand

   > The Gene: An Intimate History

   Siddhartha Mukherjee

   > Shoe Dog

   Phil Knight

   > Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

   Jay Wright

   > The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

   Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau

   > 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

   Hamilton Helmer

   > Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

   Ellen Pao

   > Bellevue

   David Oshinsky

   > The Woman Who Smashed Codes

   Jason Fagone

   > Stealing Fire

   Steven Kotler

   > Hit Refresh

   Satya Nadella

   > Thank You for Being Late

   Thomas Friedman

   > Supernormal

   Meg Jay

   > The Inevitable

   Kevin Kelly

   > Economics for the Common Good

   Jean Tirole

   > It’s What I Do

   Lynsey Addario

   > Gotham: 1898-1919

   Mike Wallace

   > The Good Daughter

   Karin Slaughter

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5. autoexecAug 2025
   > This all reminds me of this really interesting book "The Inevitable" by kevin kelly.

   I'm fine with a bit of speculative fiction, but I prefer it to be less dystopian than "The Inevitable". Got any good solarpunk recommendations?

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6. podlpJul 2025
   The book I’m currently reading-Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable-feels pretty ironic given this post
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