Book review

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right , by Atul Gawande Very clever people get things wrong. They get difficult and relatively simple things wrong.  There is a technique that they can use that cuts those errors down a lot. It’s called a checklist. Pilots, lawyers, doctors, and investment managers use them. Pilots use them at the … Read more

Peter Thiel’s Lessons for Green Firms

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  There is a lot of good advice from Peter Thiel in Zero to One. I recommend reading it. Every environmentalist should read chapter 13, ‘Seeing Green’. It gives some great advice on what it will take make clean technology successful. He also explains why too many green firms flop.   7 Basic Questions To … Read more

How to really solve the great challenges of our time

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Longitude by Dava Sobel What if the great problems of our day, problems that cost the lives of thousands could be solved relatively quickly and cheaply? What is a technique existed that could spur on these solutions? And, what if the side effects of the innovation was the creation of new industry, prosperity and lower … Read more

Need Good Ideas? Try this

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I have just read James Web Young’s ‘A Technique for Producing Ideas‘. If you are looking for the holy grail of ideas this may not be what you thought you’d learn. But, as with other classics like Mortimer J. Adler’s ‘How to Read a Book’, James Young has detailed clearly and concisely the principles and … Read more