I am a huge fan of Peter Hinssen. But “The Uncertainty Principle” is not one of his best. Los zand. Loose sand as translation. Little coherence. A book about books From Asimov, to clio-dynamics, to Kondratiev waves, to Machiavelli, to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Taleb, Arie de Geus, general Stanley McChrystal, Peter Schwartz, Venice, In […]
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“The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world” is a fascinating book (and thought experiment). Currently, it is our civic duty to buy, buy, buy. Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one
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“Careless People” is a memoir that Meta does not want you to read. It is a nasty book. Not as a book but as a story of how nasty megalomaniacs run a large company without being accountable to anyone. A book about hubris. About corruption. Money and power corrupts How Meta manipulated elections, cooperates with
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“Stellar: A world beyond limits and how to get there” is one of the most optimistic books I have read in years. Reminds me of “Moonshots” . Abundance thinking. And it is within our grasp. Extractive The very deepest root of our civilisation is extractive. That is what got us where we are now. If
If you ask me, I would recommend “Four thousand weeks“. A book about how you waste your time with time management. Was triggered again after I read “Tactical disconnect“. A book about attention management. Attention control seems to have been a theme. Also check out “Masters of uncertainty“. Full of stay-cool tools. You are the
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To stay ahead of AI, you need to develop your natural intelligence. Hence “Return to oneness”. A journey through the chakras. How to dis-identify with your old reality and old identity and connect to your essential Self. The pure essence that you are. Operating at the highest frequency possible. Making the unconscious conscious. Freedom You
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“Unbundling the Enterprise: APIs, Optionality, and the Science of Happy Accidents” reminds me of “The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win“. Both books I have a hard time understanding. But I get the principles of happy accidents, managing uncertainty and innovation. The headline Once you acknowledge that a specific
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It was the title that got me, “Tactical Disconnection: The Secret to Health, Happiness, and Productivity in an Always-on World”. A book similar to “Stolen Focus”. Curbing digital over-connectivity Technology can indeed enhance our health, happiness, and productivity—but only to a point. Beyond that, overuse leads to diminishing returns and, eventually, harm. Tactical disconnection is
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Marketing needs to recognise the tectonic shift that occurred when we became a digital species and the new risks, costs, and information flows that shift has created. Just Evil Enough “Just Evil Enough: The Subversive Marketing Handbook” is a marketing battle book. Flipping the standard marketing playbook. An extensive version of “Killing giants”: Thin
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Entrepreneurs and CEOs are the Navy SEALs of the business world. You can learn a lot from special forces (and top athletes). Discipline, leadership and dealing with uncertainty. Because uncertainty is the only certainty. SEALs are masters of uncertainty. While the SEALs’ ability to train and strategise is unparalleled, what sets them apart isn’t just
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