Visualizing Strategy: Building Blocks in Focus

A picture is worth a thousand words, and this visualization is a testament to that. It’s a great and simple representation of the strategy building blocks. In my professional life, I apply almost ipsis verbis what is depicted in this pyramid, even using the same nomenclature. (text revised by a LLM)

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Einstein: Del Teórico al Comprobado

Es absolutamente fantástico que todavía sigamos comprobando aquello que Einstein había previsto únicamente desde un punto de vista teórico, basándose puramente en sus premisas, conocimientos de física y matemáticas. Hay personas que han tenido (y algunas aún tienen) mentes asombrosas. No conocía lo que era el ZigZag de Einstein, pero ese video lo explica de una forma muy sencilla y clara. (texto revisado por LLM) EL PAÍS https://elpais.com/ciencia/2024-12-07/descubren-el-primer-zig-zag-de-einstein.html

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The 2024 Best Books by the Economist → Culture and arts

The 2024 Best Books by the Economist → Culture and arts 1-All that Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art. By Orlando Whitfield 2-The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Lives. By Adam Smyth 3-Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV. By Emily Nussbaum 4-Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. By Bianca Bosker 5-Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda 6-The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading. By Sam Leith 7-Origin Uncertain: Unravelling the Mysteries of Etymology. By Anatoly Liberman 8-Reading Genesis. By Marilynne Robinson 9-Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. By Edwin Frank 10-Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art. By Rochelle Gurstein. All added to my wish list. You might find 1/2 that catches your attention. https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/22/the-best-books-of-2024-as-chosen-by-the-economist

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Starting a new book! Win, Keep, Grow: How to Price and Package to Accelerate Your Subscription Business by Mark Stiving

Starting a new book! Win, Keep, Grow: How to Price and Package to Accelerate Your Subscription Business by Mark Stiving Pricing Book Club - book #2 Win Keep Grow shares the surprising fundamentals entrepreneurs need to build and grow a subscription business. The first section of Win Keep Grow delivers a simple framework to help businesspeople understand the differences of the subscription business. The framework consists of the three revenue buckets subscription companies must manage and the 3 value levers subscription companies must master to put their offering in a position to skyrocket. The second section uses the framework to walk the reader through how managing a subscription product evolves as the product matures in the market. The third and final section prepares companies who don’t currently have a subscription product on what to expect while transitioning to one. Pricing expert Mark Stiving, Ph.D. dug deeply into the subscription business model and he was surprised at how many aha moments he had. Win Keep Grow shares his many insights with businesses who have or want to have subscription products. Readers will walk away with a deeper understanding of this business model, a process to prioritize the investment of resources, and a way to simply communicate the product’s objectives throughout their own organization. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58488188-win-keep-grow?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=0etkP6fW1C&rank=1

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The 2024 best TV shows by the Economist

The 2024 best TV shows by the Economist. 1-“The Bear” 2-“Colin From Accounts” 3-“Cristobál Balenciaga” 4-“The Diplomat” 5-“The Franchise” 6-“Franklin” 7-“Hacks” 8-“Mr & Mrs Smith” (this one i started and i do no advise it :-)) 9-“Ripley” 10-“Rivals” 11-“Slow Horses” 12-“Shogun” (this one i saw and strongly advise it) 13-“True Detective” Have added them to my watchlist. https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/01/the-economists-selection-of-the-best-tv-of-2024

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Demis Hassabis and James Manyika on the Future of Artificial Intelligence

The Economist hosted an excellent subscriber event on AI, science, and society, featuring Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, along with James Manyika, Google's Senior Vice President of Research, Technology, and Society. The discussion offered fascinating insights into what we can expect from AGI, including the transformative opportunities it presents and the challenges it brings and it is around the corner (before 2035 creating a virtual cell…). If you have 30 minutes to spare, it’s absolutely worth your time—you won’t regret it! (text revise by a LLM) Event overview: Hear from Sir Demis Hassabis, who leads Google DeepMind and who won a Nobel prize in chemistry last month, to discuss how AI transforms science—and what is possible to be known. He is joined by James Manyika, Google’s head of research, technology and society. Our science editor, Alok Jha, will moderate the discussion. https://www.economist.com/subscriber-events/ai-science-and-society-demis-hassabis-and-james-manyika-hub

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The 2024 Best Books by the Economist → Science and health

The 2024 Best Books by the Economist → Science and health 1-The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. By Jonathan Haid 2-The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets. By Thomas Cech 3-he Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie. By Richard Dawkins 4-Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery. By Theodore Schwartz 5-More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy. By Jean-Baptiste Fressoz 6-Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin. By Howard Markel 7-Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age. By Eric Berger. 8-Tits Up. By Sarah Thornton 9-Twelve Trees. By Daniel Lewis 10-The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean. By Susan Case All added to my wish list. You might find 1/2 that catches your attention. https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/22/the-best-books-of-2024-as-chosen-by-the-economist

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