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Why Nations fail?
It proves that the geography of the nation, culture and know-how of the ruler is not the most relevant in why Nations fail.
The authors gave the case of why Inclusive political and economical institution for the majority of the population is important.
Interestingly why nations fail in:
Soviet Russia; MexicoVSUSA; China; Japan; N&SKorea; Congo;Slavery;The Black Death and much more....

What's the difference between a country who's successful and those that don't?
Geographical? No- illustrated by example in Nogales, Mexico and Nogales, USA
Culturally? The people in Nogales were culturally similar.
Lack of competent people in power? The author argues not quite.
He argues that the main difference is whether or not a nation can mobilise people's incentive and resist the urge to have power concentrate.

A very practical and important book for those seeking do more AMAZING things in a shorter time.

The cloud and how great it is

Not only is it a personal account of the Rwanda massacre, but also an interesting account of Rwanda culture, how being a preacher can be helpful and also showing some details about how hospitality works.

I've just gone through 3 working principles:
1. Work deeply
2.Embrace boredom
3. Stay away from Social Media
I'm on to the next principal: Get rid of shallow work

I'm now on Chapter 3. Chapter 1 talked about his upbringing as a child. Chapter 2 talked about his upbringing into teenagehood and how the Huttu and Tutsi differentiation affected his life.

It was an atmosphere where the insane was made to seem normal and disagreement with the mob was fatal.
I wanted to learn more about the Genocide after watching the famour film "Hotel Rwanda".
It's because that the Rwanda Genocide was so brutal, I was a bit surprised when he started talking his own childhood and totally forgot this was an autobiography

The cloud- a shift from storing software in the hard drive to the internet (which is basically stored in the hard drive of the service provider). Reduces cost and computer load for those with multi-device. (Also part of Moore's law section)

Very Very large number of possibility/ data from sensors = optimisation = less time spent + less money spent

It seems that with sensors, the individual human experience can become obsolete