10 Random Highlights From My Kindle
I am borrowing ideas from my past self. My brain is too tired to conceive new ones, but I may look at old highlights in new ways :)
A teaser
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. - The Black Swan
1. “In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are.”
Relentless
2. Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self.
Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Man's Search for Meaning
3. One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline—whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates—is the ability to dictate the tone of the battle.
The Art of Learning
4. Most enterprises have not optimized for agility. If anything, they have optimized for efficiency – for doing what they do at the lowest cost.
This is the dilemma. An enterprise must transform by changing its culture, changing its bureaucracy, changing its organization, changing its technical architecture—and making them agile.
War Peace IT
5. Naturally sticky ideas are full of concrete images—ice-filled bathtubs, apples with razors—because our brains are wired to remember concrete data.
Made to Stick
6. If you want to unlock your enterprise’s digital transformation, you must change not only its relationship with technology, but its relationship with its technologists.
War Peace IT
7. I expand in abundance, success, and love every day, as I inspire those around me to do the same.
The Big Leap
8. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
The Cathedral and the Bazar
9. The team is the most effective means of software delivery, not individuals.
Team Topology
10. Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
The Black Swan
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