Farsighted
How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right?
Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of conundrums.
Steven Johnson's classic Where Good Ideas Come From inspired creative people all over the world with new ways of thinking about innovation. In Farsighted, he uncovers powerful tools for honing the important skill of complex decision-making. While you can't model a once-in-a-lifetime choice, you can model the deliberative tactics of…
$37.00
September 4, 2018
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, How We Got to Now, The Ghost Map, and Extra Life. He’s the host and cocreator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, the host of the podcast The TED Interview, and the author of the newsletter Adjacent Possible. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons.
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El mapa fantasma
Steven Johnson; Translated by Cristina Mbarichi Lumu
Extra Life (Young Readers Adaptation)
Steven Johnson
Extra Life
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Enemy of All Mankind
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How We Got To Now
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Farsighted
Steven Johnson
Wonderland
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How We Got to Now
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Future Perfect
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Where Good Ideas Come From
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The Innovator's Cookbook
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The Invention of Air
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The Ghost Map
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On Consolation
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
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The Certainty Illusion
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How to Calm Your Mind
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Letters
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Meditations for Mortals
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Mind the Science
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I Heard There Was A Secret Chord
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Rough Magic
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Releasing the Mother Load
Erica Djossa
Supercommunicators
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Mind Over Matter
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Strangers to Ourselves
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One Sunny Afternoon
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Generation Dread
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A Map of the New Normal
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All We Want
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The Certainty Illusion
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How to Calm Your Mind
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The Art of Danish Living
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Sideways
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A Nation's Paper
Edited by John Ibbitson
Meditations for Mortals
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Invisible Doctrine
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Ultra-Processed People
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Our Crumbling Foundation
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The Next Age of Uncertainty
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Rogers v. Rogers
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Firebrand
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