This article is worth a read and of course a few of our own impressions. As we move into prediction thinking for 2022(tis the season): 1. Remote work will become a strategic choice. For those of us in software development, and consulting, location has not meant much for some time, but now, being distributed will…
A series of short stories set in 2041 around AI tech and themes that have a decent chance of emerging by 2041. Each story is followed by a technical analysis and explainer of the AI concepts at play in the fiction. Translated from traditional Chinese, it is a fun way to see AI explored in…
A trainer friend of mine and I had dinner recently. In our mid-fifties, both of us have been focusing on power and strength as a way of maintaining our resilience. He really emphasizes it with his clients as I do with people, I give workouts to. After we met, I did a little research and…
It’s what makes a market, culture or a movement. I’m not sure it’s a precursor to performance but it certainly is an output, and in the process of creating performance, it is both foundational and created from a group striving toward performance, toward meeting a challenge. It’s simpler to understand and recognize for me than…
Mieko Kawakami induced some sort of waking dream or nightmare state in this book for me. The deep vibrant descriptions of bullying torture, too extreme for me to believe, left me feeling both the victim and the abuser. Because especially with books this vivid about the difficult side of growing up triggers old emotions of…
I read an article earlier this week that said mindfulness won’t cure burnout. Directly, that is true but along with other mental and physical health efforts, it can play a vital role. While short term stress can be good for you, long-term loss of sense of control and sense of predictability will wreck you. Robert…
Luke Burgis, in his book Wanting, a Financial Times best book of 2021, explains the newish perspective of Renee Girard on a very old concept, desire. Renee Girard, came to the US after WWII and eventually landed at Stanford and formulated a practical theory of how mimetic desire is to psychology what gravity is to…
We are going to see more and more ESG risk come to rest on natural resource producers, utilities and food companies in the next 5 years. As this article from Bain reports, one of the leaders is Danske Olie og Naturgas. The Danish energy company transformed and rebranded as Orsted after a thorough materiality and…
The ESG world, while hoping to become simpler and more actionable and useful, is still on the far side of complexity for the next few years. It reminds me of Peter Attia’s world of nutrition, and what we did in fintech to give traders an edge by producing efficient, actionable data. As ESG expands and…
Kotter’s latest book on change is coming at a good time. As I am talking with clients, much of the change we experienced over the last year has not been the end; but the beginning of change. For many companies, while digital technical changes were made or business models disrupted and need new approaches, what…