January 23, 2009
This is a lovely little book that I heartily recommend for anyone who’s interested in innovation.
It’s a detailed study of the innovation process at Apple Computer, which author Leander Kahney reverse engineered by talking to people – not including Steve Jobs, apparently – and reading through the press for clues about what’s goes on inside [...]
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October 21, 2008
I have been reading a very interesting book called ‘The Black Swan,’ all the more timely because it’s about events that are ‘highly improbable,’ and also significant. Such as the current global financial crisis.
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s basic argument is that most statisticians and economists have adopted a quantitative approach to risk assessment that [...]
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