Sublime

Plato said those who tell the stories rule society and he was right.

And Mochizuki, the best in the world, continues to study. Like nearly everyone else, he records his games to video. He then uploads them to YouTube, where he pays a different set of humans to transcribe the raw video into machine-readable game records, ready for XG’s analysis. Ancient board games, meet advanced capitalism.

Whether you’re at school, a start-up, or a corporation, everyone wants the same things: success, validation, skills, and economic security.

would be a mistake to assume that microfinance is the holy grail solution to the problem of global poverty, any more than is Hernando de Soto’s property rights prescription.

But in working with leadership teams across many sectors and industries, I realized that leaders cannot meet the challenges of disruption by operating only on the basis of past experience.

… no matter how internal processes are implemented [...you..] need to understand the extent to which the mind is reliant upon external scaffolding.” (Levy 2011, 270)