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Olaf’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Olaf’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Olaf Lewitz
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“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” ...more Douglas Adams |
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“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
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“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
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Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders
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“Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.”
― Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
― Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
“The ability to shift from reacting against the past to leaning into and presencing an emerging future is probably the single most important leadership capacity today.”
― Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
― Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
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“He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
― The Globe
― The Globe
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Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman will be answering questions from readers in this special group on Friday, November 21st. They'll be discussing Amanda’ ...more
