Black Swan

Data Consciousness — Managing Your Life Line

I am con­vinced that in the next few years, we will run every aspect of our lives in a fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent way than we have done before. We’re going to do that because .… it’s pos­si­ble. We

If You Understand, You Don’t

Often, I hear peo­ple say to one anoth­er: “Yes, I under­stand.” This phrase can be heard in pri­vate as well as in busi­ness con­ver­sa­tions and every time I ask myself if peo­ple reflect about what they just said. From a neurological

The unpleasant discusssion

Today, I had a quite strange and unpleas­ant dis­cus­sion. It was about busi­ness strat­e­gy and sales, and the both of us dif­fered quite clear­ly in our views on how to ‘do it right’. I was­n’t in the best mood,

Clean up your shit

I’ve just start­ed read­ing „The Hard Thing About Hard Things“, a book about per­son­al expe­ri­ences build­ing star­tups by Ben Horowitz, well-known to entre­pre­neurs and ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists as a part­ner of Marc Andressen at a16z. It’s the best business-related

In Need of a Ministry of Detail — led by the Chief Detail Officer

Web 3.0

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull — May 1st and 2nd, 2010

Ice­land, Eyjaf­jal­la­jökull — May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiege­meier on Vimeo. Music: Jónsi — Kol­niður (jonsi.com) Canon 5d mkII HUGE thanks for the Motor­ized Dolly via MILapse (vimeo.com/milapse). Details are to come soon so stay tuned…

Finding Relevant News

Many of us com­plain about infor­ma­tion overkill these days. Oth­ers — one of them is me — reply with: There’s no infor­ma­tion over­load, there’s just selec­tion fail­ure. Any­way — those of us in the news

Social Media Is Dead — Long Live Common Sense

via David Armano

Google — SEO and its new file system Caffeine

Bob Rains dis­cuss­es SEO and Google Caffeine

Lost Generation

Lost Gen­er­a­tion is a palin­drome video that reads the same back­wards as for­ward, but has a total­ly dif­fer­ent mean­ing. The video was sub­mit­ted in a con­test by a 20-year old. The con­test was titled “u @ 50″ by AARP. This

Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize! Congrats to @riccardowired !

Con­grats to Ric­car­do Luna! You’ve made it! The Inter­net has been nom­i­nat­ed for the Nobel Peace Prize! The Inter­net has made the list of nom­i­nees for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, going up against a Chi­nese dis­si­dent and

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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