Book review

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 […]

Rishad Tobaccowala is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data”. Data, magic, soul and playing frozen music. . I was very interested in his new book “Rethinking Work: Seismic Changes in the Where, When, and Why”. A version of “Shift” or  “The end of jobs” Some of

Reid Hoffman is a techno-optimist. I suspect Greg Beato is, too. You would not expect anything else. After reading a profoundly pessimistic book about AI, I decided that maybe “Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future” would give me a boost of optimism. Super optimistic What can I say about the book?

It has been a while since I read a good book about marketing. I decided to pick up “R.E.D. Marketing: The Three Ingredients of Leading Brands”. R.E.D. R.E.D. stands for relevance, ease, and distinctiveness. It’s a bit of a myth ball buster. Relevance consists of three components: cultural, social, and functional. Ease is easy to

It was the title “All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution”. An AI-powered citizen revolution. In short, the answer is “yes”.  Technology abstraction Ever since I had the pleasure of working with PMI on their citizen development proposition and have worked with some very bright people on this topic (Sunil, Arjun, Jesse, Alwin, Henri,

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

“Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit” is yet another book on AI, and to be honest, it does not add much to the pantheon of books. It identifies the issues, but is particularly weak on offering solutions to some of the existential issues that we are facing.  The authors, Eric Schmidt, Henry A.

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