Robert Rubin

This is an inspirational memoir by an accomplished US businessman. Mr. Rubin was a partner at Goldman Sachs before becoming Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration. After that he went to Citibank where he encountered some issues at the time of the Great Recession.
In this book he advocates for better decision-making in public-policy (and business). The approach is to listen to more people in order to increase the amount of input and then do a probability-based analysis (using a yellow legal pad), rather than simply rely on past experience and intuition. It's a book to be studied, not just read. At the very least, it's necessary to read it twice. (It's slightly preachy in places).
The author's best tip to remember: Don't take anything for granted.
Recommended.… (mere)

https://coma.design/project/richard-prince-american-prayer

A look into Richard Prince’s private library and his influences, published on the occasion of an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. Artist Richard Prince is renowned for appropriating icons that capture the American cultural zeitgeist, such as Marlboro cowboys, femme-fatale nurses, and muscle cars. Prince is also a bibliophile, collecting rare volumes published from 1949 to 1984 which include Naked Lunch, Jack Kerouac’s rolled manuscript for Big Sur, and editions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita in several languages. An exhibition at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, presents rare books selected by the artist from its collection alongside Prince’s artwork.
Richard Prince: American Prayer is an accompanying volume that offers a rare glimpse into Prince’s intellectual explorations, revealing the source material for many of his well-known series through the pairing of literary excerpts and complementary illustrations of artwork.… (mere)