Who recommended Tools and Weapons?

11 people have recommended Tools and Weapons in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Reid Hoffman and Walter Isaacson. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Tools and Weapons worth reading?

11 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a legislative staffer drafting tech regulation who must explain corporate behavior and real incidents to skeptical lawmakers, because the book supplies executive-framed examples and trade-off language useful in briefings; a product manager at a large platform company defending content-moderation or security trade-offs to leadership, because it offers executive-level rationales and precedent cases that map to boardroom questions; an NGO policy analyst preparing advocacy on cybersecurity or privacy who needs to anticipate corporate positions and likely regulatory responses, since the book outlines how companies have historically reacted. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the middle chapters dig into legal and regulatory detail — tedious if you wanted a fast narrative or emotional memoir; annoying if you prefer skeptical outsider analysis: the corporate perspective sometimes reads defensive and self-justifying rather than hard-hitting; not for readers seeking deep technical explanations of algorithms or engineering — the book provides policy context and anecdotes more than technical breakdowns.

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Tools and Weapons by Brad Smith: Recommended by 11 People

Name: Tools and Weapons
Author: Brad Smith

With a foreword by Bill Gates From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your Technology, changes the world, you...