I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I just finished Niall Ferguson’s “Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist.” I bought this 882 page authorised biography for two reasons. First, I enjoy Professor Niall Ferguson’s writing. He is a rare academic who can write well. Second, I wanted to gain an insight into how the US government landed up in the Vietnam war. The book is not … Read more
Book Review The Great Mental Models. Volume 1 (link) 181 pages. Farnham Street Shane Paris has given his children a great gift. He’s taken the best ideas on mental models and distilled it in a 181 pages. The tone is humble. Parrish notes the ideas in the book are not not his own. He’s taken the best ideas … Read more
If you work in a chaotic organisation you need to read this book. This book to ‘provides guidance to individuals who find themselves working in unruly organisations’. It is useful for any one working in government, not for profit or for profit. I only regret that it took me so long to come across such … Read more
I have just read ‘The Breakthrough : Immunotherapy in the race to cure cancer‘ by Charles Graeber. Graeber tells an amazing story about the ongoing journey to find the cure to cancer. Immunotherapy is about using our own immune system, and get our cancer killing cells to do their job as quickly and selectively as possible. Immunotherapy … Read more