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Subtract
- The Untapped Science of Less
- Narrated by: Leidy Klotz, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This program includes an introduction and epilogue read by the author.
Blending evidence across science and design, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers a revolution in problem-solving: proving why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential.
We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings”. We create incentives for good behavior, but don’t get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don’t prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: We don’t subtract.
Leidy Klotz’s pioneering research shows why. Whether we’re building Lego models or cities, grilled-cheese sandwiches or strategic plans, our minds tend to add before taking away. Even when we do think of it, subtraction can be harder to pull off because an array of biological, cultural, and economic forces push us toward more. But we have a choice - our blind spot need not go on taking its toll on our cities, our institutions, and our minds. By diagnosing our neglect of subtraction, we can treat it.
Subtract will change how you change your world. In these pages you’ll meet subtracting exemplars: design geniuses, Nobel Prize-winners, rock-stars, and everyday heroes, who have subtracted to dismantle racism, advance knowledge, heal the planet, and even tell better jokes. These and more guiding lights show how we can revolutionize not just our day-to-day lives, but our collective legacy. A paradigm shift of a book, Subtract shows us how to find more of the options we’ve been missing - and empowers us to pursue them.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
“This is a captivating, perceptive read on one of the most basic mistakes that we make in the pursuit of success and happiness.... If the defining word of your life is ‘more’, you need to read this book.” (Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Originals, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife)
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- 13-03-22
average content and flawed analyses
Leidy starts the topic with seemingly unrelated topic of LA earthquake and damage to a flyover that had passed over busy market area, from there the topic brings up how subtraction of the flyover (by not recreating it under pressure from environmental or social activists) added to the beauty of the space and usefulness to the public without compromising driving comfort. it seems an analogy brought forth with a pre-conceived position, not a good way to argue. though the same approach towards anti-apartheid movement against racist SA regime does register in reader's mind but this too is an analogy from end-state working backwards. this way any good outcome could be conveniently proffered as a case of success by subtraction. what about some examples that didn't produce good outcome despite Subtraction, to enrich the analyses and bring out outliers. the pedal-less kids cycle produced by subtracting pedals, shock-absorbers, seat, chain, flywheel etc from the normal cycle, is an absolutely flawed example coz, the book is somewhere talking of minimising natural resources, reducing productivity etc and here author forgets that by creating a new product and selling by millions the example is destroying the nature, natural resources, promoting energy consuming production lines etc by selling to the market that didn't exist before this invention.
my recommendation is either author brings clarity on the purpose of subtraction or enriches the examples and depth of analysis as well as failure cases of subtraction. otherwise this book in it's current form is totally avoidable.
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