This book is about all of the parts of the Twilight Saga (books and movies) that make up the very complex love/hate relationship that the Twilight fandom has toward Stephenie Meyer, her books, and the subsequent movies. The fandom itself will also be examined as an excellent example of a community grappling with and trying to reclaim problematic media as opposed to “cancelling” it.

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: our long held maxim—that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation—is wrong. Customers don’t buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world’s most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes—it’s about predicting new ones. Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they’ll pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts. This book carefully lays down Christensen’s provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world—and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller“Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times“Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us.” —Vulture“Hao’s reporting inside OpenAI is exceptional, and she’s persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on A.I.’s putative ‘sentience’ and more on its implications for labor and the environment.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New YorkerFrom a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzyWhen AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of the “compute” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations?Spoiler it didn’t. Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry—Altman’s sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn’t just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too—as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they’re the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era.

Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak folktales of themselves, and pray to an enigmatic figure they know only as 'Great Wisa'. To Laleh, this is everything. For Myung, it is not enough. When Myung flees the whale, she stumbles into a new universe where shapeshifting islands and ancient maps hold sway. There, she sets off on an adventure that is both tragic and transformative, for her and Laleh. For at the heart of her quest lies a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries: the truth about the mad sisters of Esi. Fables, dreams and myths come together in this masterful work of fantasy by acclaimed author Tashan Mehta, sweeping across three landscapes, and featuring a museum of collective memory and a festival of madness. At its core, it asks: In the devastating chaos of this world, where all is in flux and the truth ever-changing, what will you choose to hold on to?

Untuk menjawab pertanyaan, "Mengapa air kran di Indonesia tak bisa langsung diminum?" buku ini akan membahas kualitas air sungai sampai gagasan federalisme. Jadi dari mana mengurai problem Indonesia yang ruwet? Apa sebenarnya akar masalahnya? Adakah obatnya? Kalau ada, mulai dari mana membenahinya? Buku ini ditulis para jurnalis yang ada di belakang film Sexy Killers (2019) atau Dirty Vote (2024). Tapi Indonesia terlalu luas dan kompleks. Banyak gagasan yang tak dapat difilmkan. Maka buku ini merangkum tiga perjalanan berkeliling Indonesia, yaitu: Ekspedisi Zamrud Khatulistiwa (2009-2010), Ekspedisi Indonesia Biru (2015-2016), dan Ekspedisi Indonesia Baru (2022-2023). Mereka telah merekam Indonesia dari jarak yang sangat dekat: Dari titik nol kilometer di Pulau Weh hingga ujung aspal di perbatasan Sota. Dari sana terekam konflik sumber daya alam, keadilan sosial, masyarakat adat, hingga isu lingkungan dan perubahan iklim. Tapi mereka juga ada di gedung DPR saat membahas Undang-Undang, di jalanan ibukota saat kerusuhan, atau masuk komplek Sekretariat Negara. Dari sana mereka memahami sistem politik, demokrasi, kasus korupsi, sistem kepartaian, hingga urusan tentara dan polisi. Lewat perspektif empat jurnalis yang mewakili empat generasi, dari boomer hingga Gen Z, buku ini membicarakan hal-hal besar tentang keindonesiaan lewat data, teori, dan laporan pandangan mata di lapangan dengan detil-detil yang memukau.

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.

Untuk menjawab pertanyaan, "Mengapa air kran di Indonesia tak bisa langsung diminum?" buku ini akan membahas kualitas air sungai sampai gagasan federalisme. Jadi dari mana mengurai problem Indonesia yang ruwet? Apa sebenarnya akar masalahnya? Adakah obatnya? Kalau ada, mulai dari mana membenahinya? Buku ini ditulis para jurnalis yang ada di belakang film Sexy Killers (2019) atau Dirty Vote (2024). Tapi Indonesia terlalu luas dan kompleks. Banyak gagasan yang tak dapat difilmkan. Maka buku ini merangkum tiga perjalanan berkeliling Indonesia, yaitu: Ekspedisi Zamrud Khatulistiwa (2009-2010), Ekspedisi Indonesia Biru (2015-2016), dan Ekspedisi Indonesia Baru (2022-2023). Mereka telah merekam Indonesia dari jarak yang sangat dekat: Dari titik nol kilometer di Pulau Weh hingga ujung aspal di perbatasan Sota. Dari sana terekam konflik sumber daya alam, keadilan sosial, masyarakat adat, hingga isu lingkungan dan perubahan iklim. Tapi mereka juga ada di gedung DPR saat membahas Undang-Undang, di jalanan ibukota saat kerusuhan, atau masuk komplek Sekretariat Negara. Dari sana mereka memahami sistem politik, demokrasi, kasus korupsi, sistem kepartaian, hingga urusan tentara dan polisi. Lewat perspektif empat jurnalis yang mewakili empat generasi, dari boomer hingga Gen Z, buku ini membicarakan hal-hal besar tentang keindonesiaan lewat data, teori, dan laporan pandangan mata di lapangan dengan detil-detil yang memukau.