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There is magic in the chemistry of every day materials

There is magic in the chemistry of every day materials

Mark Miodownik – Stuff Matters

Skillfully composed , mind-blowing narrative at different scales.

Run your IT department like it is a factory

Run your IT department like it is a factory

Gene Kim et. al. – The Phoenix project

The well-established template of ‘The Goal‘ applied to IT.

Thanks to technology, it becomes ever easier for fringe movements to topple the establishment

Thanks to technology, it becomes ever easier for fringe movements to topple the establishment

Moises Naim – The end of power

the book, written pre-Trump, pre-Brexit and pre-Cambridge Analytics, underemphasizes the risk of large-scale orchestration of fringe groups to undermine nation states; thereby making the author’s call for stronger institutions feels a bit besides the point.

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