Quotes: THE INGENIOUS INFECTION:

Whether a designer, and the architect in particular, chooses for the literal virtuality of a model that is made by a computer or for the metaphorical virtuality of a conventional model, is of no sense since it is the very borderline between both design processes that is interesting.

THE INGENIOUS INFECTION:

The trick is to stay somewhere between real and virtual, dogmatic and ambiguous, organisation and self-organisation, stable and unstable, straightforward ...

In dit boek lees je alles wat je wil weten over psychologische en sociale veiligheid aan de hand van 25 afbeeldingen waar de Gele Kanarie centraal staat. Praktisch en met humor gebracht.

Waarom de Gele Kanarie? De kanarie werd vroeger meegenomen in de kolenmijnen. Omdat de kanarie gevoeliger is voor giftige gassen dan mensen, wisten de mijnwerkers op tijd weg te komen bij gevaar. Op de werkvloer staat de "tjielpende" gele kanarie voor een team waar naar iedereen geluisterd wordt en waar de vei...

De toekomst maken we zelf, mede op basis van onze eigen verwachtingen. En voor het eerst sinds de industriële revolutie zijn die verwachtingen niet positief: onze manier van leven wordt onbetaalbaar, de aarde raakt oververhit én uitgeput en Fukuyama’s ‘happy end of history’ is ver te zoeken. Maar wie beter kijkt is optimistisch. Want de economische krachten zijn onverminderd sterk. Al staat die economie, die ons de afgelopen decennia aanmoedigde om alsmaar meer te consumeren, ook voor...

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Financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards shows how generative AI is reshaping the world of finance, explaining what smart investors can do to protect their assets.

AI-powered programmes like ChatGPT have become valuable tools in the financial market, and proven to be incredibly beneficial to investors looking to identify investment opportunities and risks that might be overlooked by humans. Yet there is a darker side to these products, which we...

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From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today

Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...

One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.

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Drawing on 15 years of The Reformed Broker, the most-read financial blog in the world, Joshua Brown revisits and expands on the best of his wildly popular writing and helps you to discover all the most important, surprising, and sometimes painfully true secrets of finance, investing, and Wall Street.