Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – R Thaler, C Sunstein
Reading Richard Thaler’s – Nudge opened my eyes on some kick-ass concepts, or at least getting a different angle from some traditional concepts. The first one is “choice architects”- a term coined by the author, which is a mix of statistician and marketing expert. In…
This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein
Charles David Keeling is the first person that alerted the world of the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the greenhouse effect. He set up to measure the CO2 levels in the mid-1950s first in the Yosemite Park, then on top of Mauna Loa. He was…
Income inequality between generations
“Poorer than their parents” A report from McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) takes a look at household income levels between 2005 and 2014. As expected the financial crisis of 2008 influenced the expected growth levels. Other factors identified by the authors have a cumulative effect on…
Building the right cloud for everybody
Disruption has taken a lead role in the discussion about the impact of technologies. The scale of the changes that are happening in different areas is similar to the changes brought to us by the invention of the steam engine and assembly lines, electricity and…
Will manufacturing ever leave China? Probably not
The answer has to do with market thickness. Let’s say you have two e-shops, like eBay, one with 100 sellers and the other with 10 sellers. Where do you think you’ll look first? Once a market passes its tipping point, it’s hard to turn the…
Boomerang – Michael Lewis
I remember asking one of my friends about the financial crisis of 2008 as it was happening. She was doing a PhD in Economics at that time and I asked if she knew what the crises is about and how to fix it. She…