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24 alternatives to The Smartest Guys in the Room

Cautionary tale of model-driven hubris and fraud.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Smartest Guys in the Room launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Escape the Expected▲55
The secret psychology of selling to skeptical consumers
2015 · escapetheexpected.com · its alternatives →
2
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time▲56
A revealing look at Wall Street
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Flash Boys▲81
Inside the high-frequency trading floors of Wall Street
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Hackers▲75
Heroes of the computer revolution
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
The Misfit Economy▲68
Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Phishing for Phools▲63
The economics of manipulation and deception
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes▲60
From the life-changing science of behavioral economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
The Game▲63
Penetrating the secret society of pickup artists
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · priceonomics.com · its alternatives →
12
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists▲68
The psychology knowledge for effective communication
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
The Genius of Instinct▲65
How human beings are hard-wired for success
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
EDGY Conversations▲62
How ordinary people can achieve outrageous success
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
On Bullshit▲76
Why bullshitters are more dangerous than liars.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies▲71
What happens when machines surpass humans in intelligence?
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
The Know-It-All▲76
One man's quest to become the smartest person in the world
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Superintelligence▲69
Paths, Dangers, Strategies of Superintelligence
2015 · amazon.fr · its alternatives →
19
People Over Profit ▲65
Break the system, live with purpose, be more successful
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Breached!▲60
A Cautionary Tale of Cybersecurity and Intrigue
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
21
Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop▲66
What we can learn about ourselves from our machines
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
The Supermen▲66
Seymour Cray + technical wizards behind the supercomputer
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
24
The Google Guys▲64
Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google's Founders
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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