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Who Was Nikola Tesla When someone says they have great respect for one of the greatest engineers, futurists and innovators (perhaps ever), Nikola Tesla, that among their books they have his, let’s say, “autobiography” (“My Inventions”), a seriously written biography (“Tesla: Inventor of the Modern Age”), and even a book by a domestic author about…
Time to return to one of my favorite topics, which is Japan, and the era of samurai. Can we? IKIMASHO! 😀 “Akō incident” (赤穂事件, Akō jiken) is one of those famous events that remain recorded in (not only Japanese, but world) history. The story of honor and loyalty of the 47 ronin, even at…
Trillion Dollar Coach X (by the way, director of a smaller company): So, how do you see your “working with people/employees,” HR and company functioning? Me: (talking about my vision of situations and approaches to problem-solving broadly and passionately) X: (after a brief silence) You better go to “Silicon Valley” and make your way there….
The Ride of a Lifetime People apparently had high expectations for Robert “Bob” Iger and his business/CEO memoir “The Ride of a Lifetime.” I did too. I had some inexplicably good feeling about this book. And that’s why I made maximum effort to avoid reading any (both domestic and foreign) reviews of the book until…
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman is always a welcome guest on this blog. So far we’ve hung out with him through his classic “American Gods” and the incredibly fun “Norse Mythology.” But now we’re going to, for a change, dive into an unusually fairy-tale-like (and slightly twisted) world… whose plot mostly takes place in a…
You Were Born Rich “Zig Ziglar might be the master of motivation, Mark Viktor Hansen (Chicken Soup for Soul) the master of storytelling, Anthony (Tony) Robbins can be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is the master of thinking (thought). Bob Proctor collects thoughts like Imelda Marcos collected shoes. He connects them together…
Fahrenheit 451 When I finished reading Ray Bradbury’s book, “Fahrenheit 451,” I wasn’t sure I could, like many, so easily award it the flattering title “masterpiece of the 20th century.” Does that mean the book is bad? Far from it! But for you to award a book such a title, several conditions need to be…
Zero to One For people from the world of (IT) entrepreneurship, this man is no stranger. Peter Thiel, originally from Germany, is a well-known entrepreneur and investor. This billionaire is one of the founders of “PayPal” (online payment and money transfer system), “Palantir” (big data analytics) and “Founders Fund” (investing in startup companies… their portfolio…
Goodbye Somehow the novel “Goodbye” has quite an appropriate title for the first (reviewed) novel for 2021… a nice, subtle and cultured farewell sentence for 2020 (though we surely said goodbye to it much worse in our thoughts :D). And that’s where my comments about 2020 will remain… The novel “Goodbye” by Živojin Petrović was…
Atomic Habits – Why Small Changes Make a Big Difference On one occasion (this year) I subjected myself to a kind of “test.” And that was not eating refined sugar, i.e., sweets, for a month. My motive was to prove to some people (i.e., clients) that it’s absolutely doable… and it was… and it wasn’t…