Category Archive For "Book Reviews"
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
We let that innocent looking search bar in on our true online behaviours, interests, hopes and fears. Most likely on a daily basis. Scary, ey? Everybody Lies analyses data from the likes of Google, social media, dating, and even pornography sites to reveal the truth about what people really think, want and do.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
In short, it’s pretty much Kahneman’s lifetime’s work.
Oh and he won the Nobel Prize for it. So, ya know, it’s pretty good….
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
By understanding how people settle on a decision, we can help them to make better ones. And we can even do so without restricting their choice. Instead, we just need to nudge them in the right direction.
Predatory Thinking
When a predatory thinker hits a problem they can’t solve, they move upstream, change the context and turn it into a problem that they can solve.
Hegarty on Creativity: There are No Rules
This pocket sized bible covers improving, nurturing and sustaining creativity.
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
The Watch Me Think founding fathers drew heavily from this book when forming the company and sewing its principles. The fact that, 7 years later, the company is a success and these principles are still evident is a sure sign that this book was flipping useful.
Prisoners of Geography
Interested in how the world came into its current political shape? Want to better equipped to second guess the next manoeuvres of the global stage by Putin or Xi?
101 Contrarian Ideas About Advertising
This book nets the general thoughts, musings and put-downs from an advertising great, Mr Bob Hoffman. All 101 of them to be precise.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
I think Knight wanted to write scarily honest account of what starting a business is really like. And, according to my heart rate, he certainly managed to do so.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
0 to 1 is about taking an old idea, squeezing the stuffing out of it, and coming up with a business that nobody else has thought of.