For the last few years, I’ve been changing my reading habits to try and force myself to: Read widely Read fiction Read classics The reason I wanted to do this was that I was finding that I tended to be influenced by others in my network who were reading the same books which were usually […]
Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams – A Live Read
I don’t know if you caught the live reading on the Adopt & Embrace YouTube channel on Friday where founder, (and my boss) Paul Woods (@paulwoods) read from the first chapter of our book Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. We wrote the book as a team, using […]
Notes on Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
I recently read Rutger Bregaman’s book Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There. Here is my review of his book: We are currently living in the best period of life and we can construct a society now with the best ideas – that strangely, aren’t new ideas at all. His big ideas are […]
Notes on The Old Man & The Sea
Notes on What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones
“I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been for” [Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 1881) The following is an outline of the chapter and headings of his book. Preface Explains his first book Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the future of work which was published in 1982 where explained what we […]
Notes from a World Without Work
Here are my notes from Daniel Susskind’s A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond. Introduction Introduces John Maynard Keynes term “technological unemployment” (link points to the data of this happening in Australia in coming years) as in what the progress had done to horses would eventually do to human beings to […]
Reading Challenge for 2020
My year in 2020 consisted of a LOT of reading much of it due to being in lockdown for much of it. Every year, I set myself up a Reading Challenge using the GoodReads app. Over the years, the pace of reading books has increased however, it means it’s at the expense of doing some […]
What is Life Long Learning?
Although this is not a definition I looked up anywhere but basing it on my own understanding and my own experience of it, I would say lifelong learning is the practice of continuing learning through your entire life. It’s not entangled with the trivialities of the questions of ‘what’, ‘how’ and even ‘who’ is responsible. […]
Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights – Book Notes
Why did I read this book? Gifted book Saw people talking about it on my Twitter timeline People rave about this book and wanted to see what the fuss was about. Initial Thoughts Entirely all story based from current and historical stories of advances in different fields from politics, history, medicine, police, finance. First story […]
Book Tube Reviews
I love to read. A couple of years back I decided to read more fiction as a means of getting my focus back and I wrote about it in the post Reading Books as Sense Making. At the same time, I was also watching many Book Tubers review their books online so I thought I’d […]