📚 Books
Read - a long time ago - 📚The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. I recall it as a great read, but I couldn’t truly commit to that - it was a different time. BUT - I often reference it - so it clearly had impact. Would certainly ‘give it a whirl’.
The Catch Up continues. Read 🔗📚Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
📚Read Pattern Breakers by Mike Maples Jr - and then keep re reading parts of it and finding more quotes for Readwise.
🖋️ Zingo Zingo - What you going to do-e-o
Zingo had the idea six to ten years too early. Timing, infrastructure, incumbents and a government willing to let you operate matters more than being first. A lesson for us all.
🔗 The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring | Seth’s Blog
Successful fishermen understand that casting an ever-wider net is not always the best way to catch the fish you need.
Hiring is Hard - like everything else. F-O-C-U-S
🔗📚 ‘Small is Beautiful’ - and a big win IMHO.
Mark Bernstein: The Bullet That Missed
This clever confection is a mystery about murderers who don’t kill people and murders that mysteriously do not occur.
Me? Can’t go wrong with 📚 Richard Osman.
It’s been a while since I read him .. when I did .. absolutely loved .. as did many others .. and certainly not lacking in literary skills and abilities .. sold lots AND great plaudits from his peers - and yet today we hear nothing. Why don’t we see more of 📚 J.P. Donleavy❓
Just linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.
Surprised they never became a movie series.
Another 📚book added to my pile - apparently Karl Weick, argued that when it comes to models, it is more important to be useful than perfect.
Strike me that he’s riffing on George’s quote.
Another From Seth
But now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards.
Really great analogy - and IMHO - infinitely superior to the Pluribus analogy - at least my takeaway of same - although that is a different post.
That said - it would be so much easier if Seth not only came checked the story’s author - but maybe added a link?
So you don’t have to dive down the rabbit hole ..
🔗📚 The book (Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth) .. that contains the short story
Just discovered 🔗📚 Linchpin by Seth Godin - and I wonder how I missed it - because I wonder if it is a twist on my ‘Blue Ocean of Org Charts’ - will try to find the post.
Finished reading: 📚🔗 A Cold Wind From Moscow by Rory Clements - and yeah - not really - just way too slow for my taste.
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Finished reading: 📚🔗 The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman - and every bit as good - better(?) as the first four.
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💬📚 Written in ‘63 - he died in ‘69 - book finally published in ‘80 .. so arguably he knew nought of our world today …
And yet …
The Future Of Work
Interesting quote from Ollie Henderson’s book popped up this morning - which reminded me of a Jason Fried quote and they both tie to some fascinating work I am doing right now. Bob said it 61 years ago - not prescient - simply a fact The Times They Are (ALWAYS) A-Changin' …
Currently reading: Pattern Breakers by Mike Maples Jr 📚
I don’t usually post about books I am reading, but want to see how the change that @manton made to Micro Blog works.
📚 A Story
Not mine, but it was so lovely I wanted to drop it in here, so that as ‘link rot’ continues - I will at least have it here. Who knows, you might already know it, it seems to have been circulating the socials - so of course - I did a little bit of triangulation. It looks legit.
The Story
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying
“please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote:
“my travels have changed me.”
The little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Embrace change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection.