The Weird CEO

by Charles Towers-Clark

  Finally, my biggest thanks are to my wife, Sandra, who edited the early versions; and my children who - on those occasions when I wasn’t actually writing - had to listen to more about Artificial Intelligence and WEIRD than any normal person could endure.

  References

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  [i]Introduction

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  Chapter 1 – The Need To Be WEIRD

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  Chapter 2 – Technological Change

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