A public service series. We read and discussed important and prominent books so that you could spend your time doing other things. Except we didn't always read them either.
He is remembered as as the founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation. Or, alternatively, as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and link between counterculture and technology. However, John Perry Barlow was the writer that argued that cyberspace was a frontier and that settling that frontier would require more thought that we were prepared to give.
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Globalization. It seems to be a term of another era. Simpler. Less chaotic. Quieter, perhaps. Civil, if that remains a relevant concept.
In this episode, we return to that idea as part of our recurring series “We Read It So You Don’t Have To.” Specifically, we look at the role of technology in linking national economies together. Our intrepid reviewing team considers The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin.
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Life is busy.
There’s no time to read.
Or view YouTube videos.
Or even listen to podcasts.
So Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur an Bix, the Master Scrum Master, give you a thorough overview of Clayton Christensen’s masterwork, the Innovators Dilemma.
It is perhaps the most influential business book of our age. It was the centerpiece of the late Dr. Christensen’s career. It’s important cultural icon.
And, of course, Bix hasn’t read it.
And Maddie has read it too well.
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Thomas Piketty?
Don’t get what he’s saying?
Not sure you care?
Zach, who is back, and Maddie, who has never left tell us what is important about the writings of this economist
Or maybe not.
Dr. Piketty wrote one of the more controversial book of the past 10 years. Maddie will tell you why.
And “R” makes and appearance. But not “G”.
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