Book review

I have always been fascinated by the supernormal, the paranormal, Eastern philosophy, the metaphysical, the occult, the esoteric and the deeper hidden reality beyond the mundane world. The Lindy effect The more you read about it, the more you understand that the current hard science simply does not have all the answers. Or even worse, […]

I am a huge fan of Bill Bryson. I just finished reading “The Body: A Guide for Occupants”. The book illustrates how miraculous, wondrous, special and mysterious our bodies are. We are not cheap. The full cost of building a new human being, using the obliging Benedict Cumberbatch as a template, would be £96,546.79. Where

A long time ago now, I read “The Shallows” . A very sobering book about how computers, the internet and social media are messing up your attention span. Once you read that, you will never be the same. Stolen focus Hence “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention. The book begins with a personal journey

If you are interested in mindfulness and want to read just one book, I would recommend “The Hidden Messages in Water”. A book about water. You are 70% water. When we start life as an embryo, we are 99% water. If you die of old age, you will probably be about 50% t water. In

“Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible” is a book about storytelling. Ideas are built on stories. That is how your brain processes new ideas. A story. The best way to make your idea irresistible is to build the story people will tell themselves about it. Whenever you’re asking someone to change their

Curiosity is an endangered species. But curiosity and imagination are the sources of the solutions for the crises we are currently facing. That is the starting point of “Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures”. I tend to agree. We are not spending enough time thinking and exploring ideas. Business is uncomfortable with

I had the pleasure of working with PMI, the Project Management Institute. I learned a lot. Some very clever people thinking about project management. One of the books that I found intriguing was “ “The project revolution”.  We were working on the citizen development revolution, where everything becomes a project. Small project in particular. Making project management

I am a fan of Sadhguru. “Inner engineering” is excellent, but so are his videos, interviews, etc. The guy talks a lot of sense. Karma I am also interested in karma. Particularly after I read “The Diamond Cutter”. A book about karma management. . Every thought is a seed to your future. Everything is potential.

It is the beginning of March. Spring is in the air. The sun is shining, and the garden is starting to bloom. Every morning we are now greeted by the chorus of the birds that have come back from their winter retreat. It is the perfect time to sit, think, reflect on the future and

We have been talking about fab labs for quite a while. I remember reading “Makers” by Chris Anderson. . The future of 3D, the disruption of distribution, the digitisation of the value chain and maybe even 4D. That was ten years ago. And 3D printing has been a lot slower than I expected. Designing reality