The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World - Scott Hartley

nScott 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 n 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. n n 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. n n 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. n n 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. n n Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize n A Financial Times Business Book of the Monthn