Strategy is Your Words by Mark Pollard On page 155 of Strategy is Your Words, Mark Pollard states that, “Strategy is ideas and ideas are made of words.” If he posted that without context as a Tweet, I expect it would be a red rag to Strategy Twitter. However, unlike …
They focus on money because their parents never told them they were loved. Gary Shteyngart at The Edinburgh Book Festival, 2018 The main character in Lake Success is a hedge fund multi-millionaire. And Gary Shteyngart did hard time in hedge fund circles as part of his research for the …
Pete Townshend stole his trademark arm swing from Keith Richards. And Andrew Oldham cut the Rolling Stones from six members to five, not for an musical reasons, but to improve their aesthetic and their memorability. Here are three extraordinary passages from an extraordinary book; Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham. Firstly …
There is an implicit disclosure in the title of this post. Here is the explicit version: I am the subject of Chapter 5 of Heather LeFevre‘s book called Brain Surfing. I have a small reputational (not financial) vested interest in this book doing well. But there are much more important, …
Feed was recommended to me by Robin Sloan. He of Snarkmarket, he of the Fish Tap Essay, he the author, he the self-styled media inventor. (He also recommended it to the other two hundred and eighty four thousand or so people who follow him on Twitter.) His tweet (linked above) …
How Music Works is an exercise in infectiously enthusiastic geekery. It reads more like a blog than a book. And, like all the best blogs, it is candid, thought provoking, biographical in parts, well researched throughout, and chock-full of unique content. The Talking Heads frontman knows and loves his stuff. …
I’m going to India for the first time in September next year. I want it to be insane. I want it to be incessant. I want it to be full on, full time. I want an assault on my senses or my money back. Narcopolis is set in India. And …
I really struggled with this book. Which was bitterly disappointing. It’s an “important” novel. In fact it’s a hugely important novel in the digital, cyber-circles in which I work. (There are knowing T-shirts.) I shouldn’t have been able to put it down. Instead I had to force myself to keep …
The jealous guarding of a loved one can go too far. Especially if the jealousy spills over into madness. This book reminded me of the poem Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning, which I studied for my English Literature O-Level some thirty years ago. The poem is narrated in the first …
Time travel ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. This realisation came as a bit of a shock to a lifelong Dr Who fan, particularly the latest Matt Smith iteration. Time travel ain’t all it’s cracked up to be if you work in the time travel industry and fix time …
