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neomonApr 7, 2017

audiobooks are the best way for me to take in information, and thankfully my weirdo brain, while very very very bad at processing written words, can process spoken words quite well. I'm usually listening to an audiobook on 1.5 speed most of the day, in fact I'm listening to The End of Power by Moisés Naím as I write this. :)

robbfitzsimmonsonDec 28, 2016

Moises Naim, who wrote this article, is a notable Venezuelan dissident (and was a finance minister before Hugo Chavez took over).

I'm just about to start his most recent book, "The End of Power," which is about how hard it is to establish and maintain political control as technology decentralizes. It's not going to be the kind of book Maduro (the Venezuelan president) is going to read, but seems pretty sure to be the playbook of how that regime will end.

https://www.amazon.com/The-End-Power-Boardrooms-Battlefields...

crypticaonJune 30, 2017

Thought leadership these days is almost always about pushing a corporate agenda. It's not true thinking, it's marketing.

That reminds me of the time when Mark Zuckerberg announced that his favorite book was "The end of power".

It's convenient for him to promote these kinds of ideas whilst his company acquires a global monopoly on consumer attention/awareness without being hampered by regulators.

hos234onOct 11, 2019

"It’s not just that power shifts from one country to another, from one political party to another, from one business model to another, it’s this: Power is decaying"
- Moises Naim [The End of Power] The book basically says, it is becoming easier to get power, harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it.

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