Continuous Improvement When he died last year Feodor Ingvar Kamprad was worth — depending on who you listen to — somewhere between 3 and 28 billion dollars. According to Forbes he was one of the ten richest men in the world. How you can misplace $25 billion and still be one of the world’s richest […]
Messy by Tim Harford — Book Review
What is it about? According to the author, Tim Harford, Messy “celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead”. According to Maria Konnikova’s New York Times review, “a less catchy, but perhaps more accurate, title for the book would be […]
Trial, Error and the God Complex
TED Talk Tim Harford The “God Complex” is the overwhelming belief that, no matter how complicated the problem, we are infallibly right in our solution. Economist and journalist Tim Harford explains why we are deluding ourself and shows us the only problem solving technique that is guaranteed to work. It’s the Second World War. A German prison […]
5 TED Talks
You can find just about anything on the internet The web is full of ideas, answers and solution. Some of it is good, some of it is bad, and some of it — for some reason that is beyond me — is about laughing cats. If you must waste your life surfing the net (and I […]