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THE ALGORITHM de Jon McNeill

From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success.

THE ALGORITHM:
The Hypergrowth Formula that will Revolutionize Any Business
by Jon McNeill
Portfolio/PRH, March 2026
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

Jonathan McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla. McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a global powerhouse—principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimization by incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What he learned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that required radical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and set seemingly unrealistic goals. Elon called this five-step framework “The Algorithm.”

1. Question every requirement.
2. Delete every possible step in the process.
3. Simplify and optimize.
4. Accelerate cycle time.
5. Automate.

In this book, McNeill details this tremendously powerful set of tools, which brought Tesla from a production crisis that threatened to derail it to a period of hypergrowth. During his tenure, revenue boomed from $2B to $20B in just 30 months. Since his departure from Tesla, McNeill has used The Algorithm in every enterprise he has worked with to supercharge speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth. Featuring case studies from Tesla and SpaceX, as well as from Lululemon, GM, and companies of various sizes across industries, he reveals how any business can do the same and achieve the unimaginable.

Jonathan McNeill is the cofounder and CEO of venture capital firm DVx Ventures. A serial entrepreneur and business leader with a proven track record of boosting revenue and scaling companies, he served as the president of Tesla, Inc., and the COO of Lyft. McNeill currently holds positions on the board of directors of General Motors, CrossFit, and Lululemon, among others. A sought-after speaker, he is a frequent contributor to CNBC and is regularly quoted in business publications such as Fortune, Semafor, and TechCrunch.

ECONOMICS WITHOUT NUMBERS de Peter Coy

Economics rules our lives, but we don’t fully understand how. People can’t easily grasp the big ideas of economics because they’re put off by the graphs, equations, and specialized terminology. This book explains economics through a powerful and underused teaching tool – the metaphor.

ECONOMICS WITHOUT NUMBERS:
A Guide for the Perplexed
by Peter Coy
W.W. Norton, Winter 2027
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

Economics and metaphors go together like pasta and clam sauce. The free market is an invisible hand. A rising tide lifts all boats (supposedly). There’s pushing on a string, which describes the difficulty of fighting deflation by lowering interest rates. Trickle down, the benighted notion that the best way to help the poor is to help the rich first. Real estate bubbles, stock market liquidity, price inflation, the random walk of stock prices.

If you understand the metaphors of economics, you’ll be able to make more sense of the latest report on the CPI or the GDP, and you’ll carry your weight in conversations about inflation or the national debt. “Metaphors are markers that orient the discovering wanderer,” two economists once wrote.

Each metaphor is illustrated. Skipping around is highly encouraged. There’s also a detailed index for people who want to look up a puzzling term. (What’s all this about the “velocity” of money?) For casual readers there’s a quick overview in large type. People who want to read more deeply can continue to the main text.

Peter Coy is a writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times, where he has a newsletter on econonmics and adjacent topics. He writes about big macro topics of economic growth, unemployment, and inflation, and also delves into business, markets, trade, government policy, and personal finance.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF HEARTBREAK de Sheleana Aiyana

A deeply personal and compassionate companion for anyone who has experienced heartbreak and is searching for a way to heal, by Sheleana Aiyana, the founder of Rising Woman and Spiritual Counselor for those navigating life’s toughest transitions.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF HEARTBREAK
by Sheleana Aiyana
Penguin Life/PRH, Spring 2026
(via Writers House)

Photo credit: Ally Pintucci

Heartbreak is loss, and it brings on real grief, whether it is a romantic partner, a friend, or even your own family. When we get caught in the rush to “move on”, we tend to resist the fluid process of grief, but if we look at nature, we will see its incredible ability to self-heal on its own timeline. In the same way we can’t control the seasons of the earth, we aren’t in control of the seasons of our lives. We can, however, attune ourselves to these changes, and prepare and honor the significance that each of the seasons brings.

With an approach that’s both gentle and wise, Sheleana leads us through the four “seasons” of heartbreak:

• Inner Autumn, a time to gather what we need and prepare to let go,
• Inner Winter, where we allow ourselves to grieve and rest,
• Inner Spring, a season of tentative, hopeful beginnings, and
• Inner Summer, when our hearts feel open to love and joy again.

By looking inward and honoring each season, readers will find that heartbreak isn’t just an end but also a beginning—a chance to rebuild, grow, and connect with themselves more deeply.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF HEARTBREAK is more than just a book; Sheleana offers readers a soulful journey toward transformation and finding ourselves again after loss. For anyone who’s been broken open by life, this book is here to help you gather the pieces and embrace the new version of yourself that’s waiting to be born.

Sheleana Aiyana is the founder of Rising Woman a growing community of more than 3 million readers. Her training and immersion in couples’ facilitation, inherited family trauma, family systems, conscious relationship, and somatic heal­ing inform her holistic approach to seeing relationship as a spiritual path. More than 50,000 women in 146 countries have taken her relationship programs. Her flagship course was the inspiration for her debut book Becoming the One, a transformational inner-work journey to heal lifelong relationship patterns and an international bestseller sold in over 15 countries. Sheleana has been featured in People Magazine, Vogue, ET, Cosmo, Elle, Folklife Magazine, and more.

COLOR AND SOLVE: KILLER CRUISE d’Alessandra Santelli

Mystery fans of all ages use your wit and your colored pencils to solve 35 mysteries; it’s a coloring book with a satisfying twist!

COLOR AND SOLVE: KILLER CRUISE:
Color the Crime Scene, Analyze the Clues, and Solve the Murder Mystery!
by Alessandra Santelli
Castle Point Books, October 2026
(via St. Martin’s Press)

Calling all sleuths! This uniquely immersive coloring book is a fun way to test your detective skills. From the ill-fated infinity pool to the scenic-but-slippery observation deck, COLOR AND SOLVE: KILLER CRUISE brings you on an unforgettable voyage aboard the Secret of the Seas. Each turn of the page offers a brand-new story of murder and mayhem along with a picture complete with clues (yes, that is a bloodstain on the beach chair). Whether it’s a murdered mystery writer, a stolen sapphire necklace, or a couple’s massage gone horribly wrong, it’s up to you to solve the puzzle: Read the case details, color the crime scene, dodge the red herrings, decode the messages, and catch the villain . . . if you can.

• Solve 35 intriguing mysteries with your quick logic, keen eyes, and killer instincts!
• Transport yourself to the scene of each crime, and investigate as you color.
• Indulge your love of murder mysteries and true crime (and coloring).

Alessandra Santelli is a freelance illustrator who works from her studio in Milan. When she’s not creating art, Alessandra enjoys time at home with her family and her crazy cocker spaniel Ziggy.

DIE MACHT DER MUSIK d’Ullrich Fichtner

Music makes us happier, healthier, smarter and nicer – and we need more of it in our lives.

DIE MACHT DER MUSIK
(The Power of Music)
by Ullrich Fichtner
DVA/PRH Germany, November 2025

Music has an extraordinary effect on us: it can give us goosebumps and butterflies, it can make our hearts beat faster, it can cheer us up and make us sad, can bring our stress levels down and ease pain. Not just that, but the latest findings from neuroscience and brain science show that it can have a positive impact on our health, psyche and social skills, and help develop and reinforce cognitive skills in both the young and the old.

In DIE MACHT DER MUSIK, the multi-award-winning Spiegel reporter and music aficionado demonstrates that music has huge tangible benefits. Using his wide-ranging experience with music and musicians in all genres around the world, as well as the latest scientific studies, he reveals how and why music is so important both for us individually and society at large, how it works, its enormous potential as a social tool, and how it can help us live a healthier, happier, more peaceful – in short: better – life.

Ullrich Fichtner was born in 1965 and is a Spiegel reporter based in Paris. With three Egon Erwin Kisch and three Henri Nannen prizes to his name, he is one of the most award-winning German journalists. His latest book, « Geboren für die großen Chancen » (‘A future of opportunities’) was shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Prize.