比尔盖茨把这本书送上了亚马逊图书销售冠军

重燃阅读 · 公众号 · · 2017-05-22 22:53

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最近比尔盖茨在其Twitter上连发14条推文寄语大学毕业生，他认为充满希望的三个领域是人工智能，能源和生物科学，也再次向大家推荐了这本most inspiring book。

下面是盖茨的推文：

其实这本出版于2011年的书籍在2012年的时候就得到了盖茨的关注，在其gatesnotes.com上是这么评价这本书的：

It’s a big book, more than 700 pages, and I wish that the summary chapter was available separately as an article, because many people could benefit from it who might be scared off by a book this long. As a guy who is pretty rigorous about how he spends his time, I think this book is completely worth the time to read it.

I would put “Better Angels” on the same scale as Big History, David Christian’s ambitious project to create a framework for how human history was influenced and shaped by everything around it.

For me, what’s most important about The Better Angels of Our Nature are its insights into how to help achieve positive outcomes. How can we encourage a less violent, more just society, particularly for the poor? Steven Pinker shows us ways we can make those positive trajectories a little more likely. That’s a contribution, not just to historical scholarship, but to the world.

而在2015年扎克伯格的A Year of Books计划里面，这本书是其阅读的第二本书，也是在那天这个账号第一次分享了这本书。

这次是比尔盖茨的再次推荐，也是本账号的第二次分享。

这本书的中文版已经引进，书名为《人性中的善良天使》。

希望你喜欢，晚安。

The Better Angels of Our Nature