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I have not read Steven Johnson’s book, but after watching tonight’s episode of 24 and seeing the complex … Continuer la lecture de « Everything bad is good for you 🙂 »

I just watched Steve Job’s presentation of the iPhone. Steve Jobs really knows how to put on a … Continuer la lecture de « iPhone: Love the Product, Skeptical about the Market »

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the … Continuer la lecture de « Yet more inspirational quotes »

Jack Weatherford provides an interesting and much more positive account of Genghis Khan’s life and legacy than I … Continuer la lecture de « Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is amazing and surprising! »

Check out the cover of the latest Economist 🙂 I can’t wait to read it 🙂

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I just arrived in Paris from Buenos Aires for LeWeb3 conference organized by Loic Lemeur. I was horrified … Continuer la lecture de « France and the mirage of progess »

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