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The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
Contributor(s): Hartley, Scott (Author)

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ISBN: 1328915409     ISBN-13: 9781328915405
Publisher: Harper Business
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Careers - General
- Business & Economics | Training
Dewey: 384.301
LCCN: 2017000818
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.48 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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"Scott Hartley artfully explains why it is time for us to get over the false division between the human and the technical." --Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change by Design

Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in computer or hard sciences, you were a techie.

While Silicon Valley is generally considered a techie stronghold, the founders of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Slack, LinkedIn, PayPal, Stitch Fix, Reddit, and others are all fuzzies--in other words, people with backgrounds in the liberal arts.

In this brilliantly counterintuitive book, Hartley shatters assumptions about business and education today: learning to code is not enough. The soft skills--curiosity, communication, and collaboration, along with an understanding of psychology and society's gravest problems--are central to why technology has value. Fuzzies are the instrumental stewards of robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. They offer a human touch that is of equal--if not greater--importance in our technology-led world than what most techies can provide.

For anyone doubting whether a well-rounded liberal arts education is practical in today's world, Hartley's work will come as an inspiring revelation.

Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize
A Financial Times Business Book of the Month


Contributor Bio(s): Hartley, Scott: - SCOTT HARTLEY is a venture capitalist and startup advisor. He has served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, and a venture partner at Metamorphic Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Hartley worked at Google, Facebook, and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is a contributing author to the MIT Press book Shopping for Good, and has written for publications such as Inc., Foreign Policy, Forbes, and the Boston Review.

Hartley has been a speaker at dozens of international entrepreneurship events with the World Bank, MIT, Google, and the U.S. State Department's Global Innovation in Science and Technology (GIST) program. Hartley holds an MBA and an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Stanford University. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
 
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