blog – December 16, 2020
Continuing in the same vein as last week's podcast episode, we discuss Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book, 'The Age Of Spiritual Machines'. The pace of technological innovation sometimes seems like it will never abate, but at the same time, Gordon Moore's Law (doubling of computing speed every two years) seems to be drawing to a physical end. Will the future of humans be subsumed by our increasingly advanced technological innovations, or will we eventually find balance in life?
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blog – December 7, 2020
This week we talk about Josh Waitzkin's book, 'The Art of Learning', and how apropos the learning principles he presents are to what I am currently learning about Machine Learning and AI. Are machines becoming better employees than humans? How can we humans learn more, deeper and faster, to compete against the machines?
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blog – November 23, 2020
Dream bigger, set the bar higher, have a more positive attitude, achieve more. These are some of the themes in this classic book by David J. Schwartz. In this week's episode we talk about how to achieve more on the way to self-actualization.
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blog – November 17, 2020
When starting a new job or a new role, the book, 'The First 90 Days,' contends that you have just three short months to prove your worth to an organization or else! While failure to prove your value to an organization after 30 days might not get you canned (at least not right away, perhaps), you could be inflicting a burdensome cost on your employer. Dr. Caple and I discuss various aspects of this career enhancing book.
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blog – November 10, 2020
'The best executives are made, not born.' This particular takeaway from Stephen A. Schwarzman's recent book, 'What It Takes', brought up an interesting point of discussion between Cindy and me about success and IQ. In this podcast episode, we discuss 6 of my core takeaways from this book.
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