My review of “The Innovation Delusion“
Last year, my work took me to Korea, Azerbaijan (i.e., from one end of the Silk Road to the other) and the Netherlands, among other places. Baku, the
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Skip to contentLast year, my work took me to Korea, Azerbaijan (i.e., from one end of the Silk Road to the other) and the Netherlands, among other places. Baku, the
So SHORTER came out a week ago, and it hasn't exactly been the greatest week for new books! My reading at Books Inc in Mountain View went forward
You're probably familiar with books like David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and Peter Fleming's The Death of Homo Economicus, which talk about how in the modern economy, the problems
This sign sums up my sabbatical I’m quoted in an article about “Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals” in today’s New York Times. It’s a good piece, if I do say so
One of the companies I write about in SHORTER (US | UK) is IIH Nordic, a Copenhagen-based data marketing firm that implemented, and has become a Nordic model for, a
While SHORTER (US | UK) moves through production (I get the copyedits next week, and have a bunch of revisions to put in), there's another book about shortening
Bruce Daisley, podcaster, Twitter executive, and author of The Joy of Work and the forthcoming Eat Sleep Work Repeat, has a short and great piece in The Guardian
Fintan O'Toole's Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain sounds like a good read. And this bit about the British elite, from the New York Review of Books
University College Dublin philosophy professor Brian O'Connor has a nice piece in Time Magazine about "Why Doing Nothing is One of the Most Important Things You Can Do:"
The New Statesman has a piece on "The slow death of the literary novel," and how lower advances and royalties are making it harder for authors to make a