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• Alternativ Nyttårstale

  By markusreitan on January 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Når Norge nå går inn i det nye tiår, er det fare for at landet har sine beste dager bak seg. Joda, for all del, det går fortsatt godt i Norge. De fleste nordmenn nyter en levestandard som er langt… Read More ›

• Økonomiske muligheter for våre barnebarn – 2119

  By markusreitan on October 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Vi lider nå under et angrep av fanatisk teknologi-optimisme. Det er vanlig å høre foredragsholdere forkynne at vi står på randen til en ny epoke med eksponentiell økonomisk vekst i det 21. århundre; at vi er i ferd med å… Read More ›

• Will there be life after Google?

  By markusreitan on April 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Google system of the world is an evil empire that stifles entrepreneurial activity and is doomed to fail, before a decentralised Internet will rise from the ashes, argues George Gilder in his latest book.  On the face of it… Read More ›

• Reid Hoffman’s not fully convincing book on “Blitzscaling”

  By markusreitan on April 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Businesses can achieve global scale faster than ever in the Networked Age, argues LinkedIn-founder Reid Hoffman in his new book, but must grow fast or die slow in a brutal market where the winner takes all. Blitzscaling — The lightning-fast path to… Read More ›

• Je suis Woke!

  By markusreitan on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Titania McGrath har skrevet årets viktigste bok. Hvis du ikke leser den er du mest sannsynlig en fascist.  Hun er internettsensasjonen, den post-moderne feministiske inkarnasjonen av Jeanne D’Arc som holder håpet oppe for Millennials opptatt av sosial rettferdighet, etter kriseåret… Read More ›

• Does the Massive Popularity of Michelle Obama’s Becoming Signal the Renaissance of the Traditional Housewife?

  By markusreitan on March 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Michelle Obama’s Becoming has sold more than 10 million copies since its release before Christmas, and is on-track to become the most-selling memoir of all time, according to publisher Bertelsmann. Given her global superstar profile a Michelle Obama memoir would… Read More ›

• Monday Reads

  By markusreitan on March 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Mueller Report delivers the death blow to the reputation of American MSM news media, argues Matt Taibi (who is not known as a partisan of Trumpland): There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign… Read More ›

• The Name of this Blog

  By markusreitan on March 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  I first encountered Umberto Eco’s idea of the Antilibrary when reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan in high school in 2007. The idea made immediate sense to me, as I presume it would to anyone having experienced the overwhelming… Read More ›

• Morally Reprehensible / Factually Correct

  By markusreitan on March 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Scientists should not ask questions that may have uncomfortable answers. Peter Conradi in The Sunday Times interviewing Alessandro Strumia, the Italian professor of theoretical physics who was fired by CERN, sanctioned by (his employer) the University of Pisa and publicly… Read More ›

• Saturday Reads

  By markusreitan on March 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Richard Spencer reviewing the Sana’a, Yemen-based Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s Arabs — A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires in The Times (of London): “The word ‘politics’ derives from the Greek ‘polis’, a city, and represents a collective endeavour; siyasah, the standard Arabic translation,… Read More ›