Book review

Go do strategy

I love strategy. The best book ever on this topic is “33 strategies of war” by Robert Greene. Type “strategy” on my website , and you will get a bundle of blogs covering books, chess, toolsets, filters, future trends, scenario prompts, etc. You name it, and it is covered. I decided to pick up “This […]

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AI and Chernobyl

Everyone interested in AI should read “The Maniac” by Benjamín Labatut. A book about developing the atomic bomb, Von Neumann and his perspective on AI. With terms such as digital symbionts, digital DNA, AlphaGo, and a view that just because Earth has so far seemed to favour organochemical life forms is no proof that it

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The 6 driving forces and the 32 scenario prompts for 20235

Hello, Future!: The World in 2035″ is probably one of the best books I read on foresight. It is excellent. Framed in the current perma-crisis or poly-crisis, with the possibility of everything going wrong unendingly, no relief or resolution in sight, ever, nonstop, and inescapable. The race between education and catastrophe It is a race

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Embrace Tarzan economics

Getting into “Pivot: Eight Principles for Pivoting through Disruption” took me a while. Napster moments, the music industry, gatekeepers, the long tail, virality, Radiohead, Spotify, attention economics, gaming, sameness, farmers, builders, and disruption. The 6Ds from “Bold” . Digitisation leads to deception first, then disruption, then demonetisation, then dematerialisation and eventually to democratisation.  We are

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