Black Swan

Serendipity: The Science Behind Connecting the Dots

Revis­it­ing “Con­nect­ing the Dots” Years ago, I wrote about my per­son­al approach to life and work: con­nect­ing the dots. Instead of rigid New Year’s res­o­lu­tions or elab­o­rate strate­gies, I chose to stay open, mind­ful, and engaged with my surroundings.

The Human Element: Why Social Engineering Wins in the Age of Machines

After decades spent build­ing dig­i­tal prod­ucts for clients and part­ners, I found­ed vali.now with a sim­ple, frus­trat­ing real­iza­tion: the most sophis­ti­cat­ed secu­ri­ty sys­tems in the world were con­sis­tent­ly being undone not by code, but by con­ver­sa­tion. With Datarella,

Introducing NOMIX — The Future of Personalized Health Optimization

At NOMIX, we are on a mis­sion to empow­er indi­vid­u­als to take con­trol of their health and longevi­ty through the use of cutting-edge tech­nol­o­gy. Our team of experts in the fields of AI, blockchain, and biotech­nol­o­gy has

Conspiracy Theories — The Fairy Tales Of Today

Every child loves fairy tales. When the princess is ter­ror­ized by an insid­i­ous step­moth­er, unbe­knownst to her father, the King, or when a poor man finds rich­ness at the end of a chal­leng­ing jour­ney. Fairy tales help to

The Mindful Revolution

The Mindful Revolution — Entering The Next Evolutionary Level

I’m very happy to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of my first book: The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion. It took me much longer than expect­ed — the orig­i­nal release date was Novem­ber 2019. How­ev­er, I real­ized that it’s quite a chal­lenge to

The Mindful Revolution

The Mindful Revolution — How To Manage Complexity

After a few more months than orig­i­nal­ly planned, I today was able to pub­lish my first book: The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion — How to man­age the com­plex­i­ty of the world we have cre­at­ed. Although used to man­age projects, I completely

How to manage the Coronavirus COVID-19 crisis

SARS-CoV‑2 — How to manage the Coronavirus Crisis

Com­plex sys­tems, cor­po­ra­tions, economies, organ­isms, or ecosys­tems, tend to become ever more com­plex. Due to a mul­ti­tude of depen­den­cies, com­pe­ti­tion, rela­tion­ships, and other types of inter­ac­tions between their parts, and dis­tinct prop­er­ties, s.a. non­lin­ear­i­ty, emer­gence, spon­ta­neous order,

Hiding vulnerability behind an armoured truck

Vulnerability Is Power — Remove Your Armour

Glob­al defense spend­ing is high­er than ever, with USD 1.822bn, or 2.1% of glob­al GDP. With over 200 mil­lion sold SUVs, the share of big­ger and heav­ier cars has reached its all-time high rep­re­sent­ing 40% of

Michael Reuter - How to communicate in a non-violent way

Non-Violent Communication Improves Relationships

2019 was a year with­out a New Year’s res­o­lu­tion for me. I can­not tell whether that made any dif­fer­ence, for good or bad. How­ev­er, I was inclined to give it a try for 2020 — which, at least, marks a new decade.

Michael Reuter - The beste time to start something new is always now

The Best Time To Start With Something New Always Is Now

There are lots of rec­om­men­da­tions about when start­ing a busi­ness. Most­ly, we are advised to start-up when times are good and we can afford to invest some time and money in build­ing our own self-employed careers. Since

The Lull Before The Blockchain And AI Digitization Storm

The Lull Before The Blockchain And AI Digitization Storm

We tend to over­es­ti­mate the effect of a tech­nol­o­gy in the short run and under­es­ti­mate the effect in the long run”, the old adage by Roy Amara, was more than obvi­ous dur­ing Dif­fu­sion 2019, a 400+ devel­op­ers hackathon

Banking the unbanked Internet of Things IoT

Create the Economy of Things By Banking The Unbanked IoT

Bank­ing the Unbanked always refers to human beings and their enable­ment to par­tic­i­pate in the glob­al finan­cial sys­tem by pro­vid­ing them with bank accounts. In this post, I sug­gest cre­at­ing the Econ­o­my of Things by bank­ing the

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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