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Latest Read: A World Without Email

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport.

Certainly glad to read this book at the end of 2021. So, the holiday provided a much needed opportunity for refection on the role of email across my organization.

There will be dozens of reference points while reading this book that will provide insights to your organization’s culture. This will reveal approaches to email versus a meeting-driven culture.

In addition, Cal is straight forward about how attempts like ‘Email free Fridays’ actually do more harm than good. Above all, this compliments Ozan Varol’s book How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist. Inspirational ideas to make organizations see efficiencies.

The key message throughout the book is the “hyperactive hive mind” which certainly indicates the impact of how your organization is managing communications.

In addition, this refers to the approach of deliberate advanced planning and the impact of tasks coordinated with ad-hoc messaging between teams, internal customers and key stakeholders.

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Latest Read: AI Ethics

AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh. Mark is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna.

AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

In addition, he is the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, member of the High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence for the European Commission, member of the Austrian robotics council.

Mark is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of AI and Sustainable Development, The AI Ethics Journal, Cognitive Systems Research, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society.

In addition, Mark brings a wealth of ethics experience to address Artificial intelligence (AI). This book is directed at new audiences to AI, showing how there is a real need to understand the impact of bias surrounding these technologies.

One will certainly appreciate Mark’s academic approach to explaining history’s many attempts to create knowledge in various forms. Indeed, Mark creates a good foundation for AI and it’s downstream technologies including Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and ultimately Trustworthy AI.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the biggest buzzword in the marketplace today. For those pushing AI-based solutions, we are living in the best time for humanity. However, many even within IT, mathmetmatics, and researchers are able to forecast the worst things possible.

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Latest Read: Invisible Women

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez. Caroline is an award-winning and bestselling writer and campaigner. She is a graduate from Oxford University.

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

The role of a data gap is certainly male leaning. The most difficult task is addressing the data gap bias in cultural diversity across many countries.

What this reveals to me is a bit more complex requirement. The data gap must be aligned within the geographic region and time stamped cultural practices. This will provide much deeper insights.

The opening two chapters address Daily Life. Chapter One is addressing how plowing snow in Sweden is sexist. In America by comparison snow plowing priority is quite different.

The Public Works departments of cities and towns clear roads primarily to keep large traffic patterns clear of snow. The priority does change when winter weather advisories are issued.

When the midwest is hit with large snowfalls that cause delays in public transportation, obviously due to the lack of passable roads, the downstream effect can be delays in various organizations (arts, health, education) and ultimately a prioritization will be to clear roads so the delivery of the US mail can continue.

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Latest Read: You Are Your Best Thing

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown.

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown.

Tarana Burke is an activist, founder of the MeToo movement, and graduate of Auburn University at Montgomery. Time Magazine honored her work as a 2017 Person of the Year winner and then identified Tarana as one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2018.

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, and visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Brené is a best selling author on shame research. In fact, I recently finished reading the 10th anniversary of The Gifts of Imperfection.

This book is certainly an amazing collection of 19 stories addressing shame resilience within black communities. In addition, each contributor’s story reveals how they overcame and triumphed. I found each chapter holding a unique voice, as diverse as each contributor’s experience. Indeed, the book culminates with the closing chapter, Where The Truth Rests by Tarana.

This books serves as an inspiration to our global world of what can be achieved. However, the road to identify, confront, and overcome shame is indeed possible.

This is probably the second most important takeaway, each contributor shows that regardless of the impact of shame upon their lives, they took multiple paths to succeed. Their paths indicate there are numerous paths, not just one.

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Latest Read: The Four

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway. Scott is a Professor of Marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business. He led startups at Prophet, Red Envelope and L2, which was acquired by Gartner.

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway

Scott has also served on the boards of media companies including The New York Times, Dex Media, Advanstar, Gateway, Urban Outfitters and Eddie Bauer. He joined the faculty of NYU’s Stern School of Business in 2014.

So Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are deemed by Scott as the Four Horsemen. The data Scott provides is rich at the time of publication. It would be well worth hit time to release a second edition: The Four Horsemen of the Pandemic, as their metrics will be even more amazing to understand how they have grown from 2017. This is amazingly, just four years from the release as well.

Throughout the book Scott addresses his move from private business to teaching at NYU, where the cost of education is $500 per minute.
While reading Scott’s book at the close of 2021, the omicron variant is surging and according to Scott in 2017 their reach (and profits) should be soaring to new gigantic heights.

Surprisingly, Scott not only portions each company in the marketplace they dominate, but also how they are now digging in to complete with one another.

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