TBridge Book Club – Freakonomics
There are books that inspire you, books that make you think, and books that are entertaining. Freakonomics is definitely entertaining, and it makes you pause and think about why certain things happen – whether you buy into the theories/correlations that are presented in the book or not. After reading The Age of Turbulence by Alan [...]
Read moreFreakonomics – A review
Freakonomics is one of those wildly popular books which brings a dry scientific subject, in this case economics to a wider audience using the proven formula for such a task. Simplified language, lack of equations, and avoidance of theories and science specific jargon are a must. Then take subject matter which is interesting to a [...]
Read moreOttawa Social Media Book Club
Yesterday I participated in a book club discussion centered around Social Media. The club, which meets about once every three months, met at the downtown Fox and Feather Pub and was discussing The Cluetrain Manifesto. The ‘Manifesto’ is a book by now 10 years old but not to be confused as outdated. It talks about [...]
Read moreMalcolm Gladwell @ The National Arts Centre Ottawa
Among the many things he talked about tonight, one that struck out the most to me was his reply to a question posed by the host that if the solution to a problem is so simple and is staring us in the face that why don’t we just do it? In his opinion, a solution staring in the face could still be very difficult to accomplish and an individual effort for a collective good is what is required to constitute a progressive society.
Read moreMalcolm Gladwell @ the NAC June 11th 2009
As you might now, TBridge started a book club and the first book we read was Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. A week after our review, Stephen Daze comes in during our weekly meeting announcing that Malcolm Gladwell will be at the NAC June 11th and since we had all just read [...]
Read moreAlan Greenspan – The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan’s book The Age of Turbulence – Adventures in a New World may be a bestseller as much for its literary merit as for the man’s perceived role in the global credit crisis. This fact did not escape Greenspan, who went on to add another chapter for the revised edition of the book after [...]
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