From the daily archives: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Accelerating Change
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Accelerating Change
How much change is likely to happen in five years, in ten years? This is one of my favorite topics – the acceleration of technology. Many day-to-day things we take for granted today were miracles ten years ago, and the [...]
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Book Recommendations
Decisive
Chip and Dan Heath hit another one out of the ballpark with Decisive, their guide to making better decisions through science - the science of understanding how our psychology handicaps us when it comes to decisions. With their simple WRAP methodology for improving your decision-making process, or that of your organization, your decisions will be much better.Flash Foresight
Daniel Burrus' Flash Foresight was one of the highlights of my reading list last year, full of valuable advice about "predicting the future' and how to know what part of the future is predictable and what part isn't. Highly recommended - I've returned to it over and over again since I first read it.Lean Startup
Eric Reis' Lean Startup has fundamental (and in retrospect, obvious) ideas for how to build a startup successfully. Key concept is that startups operate in a world of complete uncertainty, so you need business practices that recognize that uncertainty and continually reduce the level of uncertainty, until you have discovered a real market, a real product that market wants, and a real way you can get that product to market profitably. You may think you know this at the outset, but the reality is that you don't, and at least you have to test your hypotheses. This book is about how to do that.
Blogroll
- (The late, lamented) Creating Passionate Users
- A math teacher making a difference
- Bob Sutton's Work Matters
- Cool Tools
- Dan Ariely on the wacky ways we make decisions
- Grant McKracken, cultural anthropologist
- Kevin Kelly on the future of technology
- Richard Florida’s Creative Class blog
- The Rational Optimist
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