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Category Archives: Reading
My latest read – Our Choice
Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint.
Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]
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Tagged Al Gore, america, carbon footprint, change, china, climate crisis, coal, dramatic changes, energy, energy tool, environment, generation technologies, green, green fuels, india, internet, political rhetoric, population, population boom, social responsibility, Technology, TED
Switch – Chapter 1 review
Chip and Dan Heath wrote Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and it was quickly listed as one of the top 100 business books of 2007….I couldn’t agree more. They launched a website dedicated to the lessons of Made to Stick and continued their book’s conversations online.
In mid 2009 it was [...]
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Tagged brains, business books, business today, community, emotional sides, fundamental research, group, heath brothers, human psychology, made to stick, organization, research
Visualization changes everything
Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends
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Tagged change, information, politics, visual, visualization
Microsoft’s Tablet ?
According to the UK Telegraph: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
I must admit there was not a lot of excitement from his presentation.
Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Tablet, CES, media player, magazine, trends
My latest read – One Day in September
After watching Steven Spielberg’s Munich I wanted to learn more about the tragic events of the ‘72 German Olympic Games. Simon Reeve’s book One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation “Wrath of God” is a sad and detailed overview of the events surrounding the [...]
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Tagged 1972 munich olympics, black september, controversial book, german authorities, german police, gun battle, intelligence, mossad agents, munich olympics massacre, olympic coaches, olympic games, one day in september, operation wrath of god, Reading, sad event, simon reeve, terrorism, wrath of god
My latest read – Triple Cross
My understanding of the events leading up to 9/11 have been shaped by great authors and believe Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI–and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him by Peter Lance makes significant contributions to understanding the full breakdown of the US intelligence [...]
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Tagged 9/11, 9/11 commission, able danger, al qaeda, bin ladin, bojinka, cia, dietrich snell, fbi, intelligence, jamie gorelick, khalid shaikh mohammed, master spy, mohamed ali, murrah federal building, new york city, NYFD, patrick fitzgerald, peter lance, ramzi yousef, ron bucca, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, terrorism, terry nichols, triple cross, twa flight 800, world trade center
Holiday reading
Holiday reading arrived today via mail. Many selections have been referred in previous books so I started tagging them after realizing more than one book pointed to the following:
Cell, The: Inside The 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It,
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy,
Integrity: Good [...]
SuperFreakonomics’ Authors on GeoEnginnering
University of Chicago Economics Professor Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner about Geoengineering Global Warming Fixes. Their data about innovation planning shows how important creative thinking can be in addressing global problems. From their followup best seller Freakonomics called SuperFreakonomics:
I really enjoyed what Levitt and Dubner’s research revealed in both books, it was very enjoyable reading. [...]
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Tagged best seller, economics, economics professor, engineering, freakonomics, global warming, stephen dubner, steven levitt, superfreakonomics, university of chicago
My latest read – Ahead of the Curve
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Tagged banking, BMW, borderless world, broughton, case studies, competing in a flat world, daily telegraph, elite training, flat, flat world, future, Google, harvard business school, harvard commencement, harvard mba, jobs, losing touch, mba candidate, research, singapore, venture capital