“Meme stock” mania peaked in 2021, when amateur traders, geeing each other up online, jacked up the price of stocks like GameStop and AMC. In his readable, propulsive history of WallStreetBets — the Reddit forum at the heart of the stock-trading craze — Nathaniel Popper argues that the effects of that mania are still being felt. Popper recounts the history of the forum — founded in 2012 — in detail.
Without the building blocks of novice work, how do we develop expertise? An organisational ethnographer, Beane draws years of research in workplaces from Michelin-star restaurants to packing lines to operating theatres in this readable study of that puzzle. Developing skill, he concludes, relies on challenge, complexity and connection: gradually exposing ourselves to difficulty under the guidance of trusted, respected and experienced mentors.