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The Big Picture – Carroll

November 10, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

I have to admit that I’m a massive Carroll fanboy. I think he is an extremely intelligent person and an expert communicator. I love his thinking, his books, and his podcast. “The truth is that the ground has disappeared beneath… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2019, evolution, life, morality, philosophy

Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility – Mcord

November 10, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Patty Mcord did a good job writing this book, especially for her consulting career. It’s a good book but lacks a solid theory or structure towards what god leadership is. It’s more an abstraction of her learnings from growing Netflix.… Continue Reading →

Reading List leadership

21 Laws of Leadership

November 10, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Maxwell is not one of my favourite authors. While he has a lot of good wisdom on leadership, his style of teaching is through highly marketed, over exaggerated framing. "Leadership is influence, nothing less, nothing more. But here are another… Continue Reading →

Reading List leadership

The Meaning of Human Existence – Wilson

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

This book is dangerous in that it promotes false logic and rationality. It’s the kind of fake news attitude that America has seen arise. Where flawed logic is not flawed thought. To get a quick sense of my thoughts of… Continue Reading →

Reading List evolution, morality

The Moral Animal – Wright

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

The Moral Animal by Dawkins is a great all round read. However, not as in-depth on evolution as “the selfish gene” but probably enough for the general reader. Because it touches on so many ideas, it kind of jumps around… Continue Reading →

Reading List evolution

River Out of Eden – Dawkins

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

This was a really enjoyable read from Dawkins before he became the poster-child of atheism. However, if you are interested in learning more about evolution and DNA then I would recommend The Selfish Gene by Dawkins instead. It’s much more… Continue Reading →

Reading List evolution

Reinventing Organisations – Laloux

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

I think historically I’ve been very biased towards alternate leadership styles that set out to “break the mould”. However, having spent a lot of time reading and thinking about leadership, I think there is something fallacious about this idea. Reinventing… Continue Reading →

Reading List business, leadership, organisations

Sapiens – Harari

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

If you haven’t read Sapiens yet, you definitely should. It gives a beautifully broad coverage of the history of humanity. After finishing, rather than continuing on with Harari’s sequel, jump across to The Big Picture by Sean Carrol to get… Continue Reading →

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The Selfish Gene – Dawkins

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Despite the poor rap that Dawkins has built over the years, this original work of his is a true classic. It is the foundation for much of the evolutionary science that came after it, and it really contains none of… Continue Reading →

Reading List evolution

The Human Side of Enterprise – McGregor

October 5, 2019sebastiankade Leave a Comment

The Human Side of Enterprise is a classic business book that when taking it’s context into account, highlights some really useful things about the transition from pre-management to management to leadership. It’s not to be read looking for a model… Continue Reading →

Reading List leadership

Go F*ck Yourself YouTube

December 17, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

If you thought you’re attention was already short, YouTube is trying to make it even shorter. Here is YouTube’s new “mini-player”. Which really should be called “F*ck Your Attention Span, Let’s Make Money Mode”. Here’s what happens when you press… Continue Reading →

Humanity

How to Identify Issues With Journalling

September 30, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Journaling can be an extremely useful tool for exploring your inner-self and identifying issues that are lying beneath the surface. The essence of journalling is giving yourself the space to write anything that is on your mind, no matter how… Continue Reading →

Life 2018

Dealing with Suffering

September 30, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Life is suffering. This is the foundation of Buddhist thought. No matter what happens in life, there is one thing that you can be assured of, and that’s suffering. Buddha wasn’t just a cynical old man, but went on to… Continue Reading →

Life 2018, suffering

Incognito – Eagleman

September 27, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

(Goodreads ・ Amazon) Incognito is what you get when Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman, and Free Will by Sam Harris, have book sex. Incognito by David Eagleman is a much more comprehensive and arguably better version of Sam Harris’… Continue Reading →

Reading List 2018, consciousness, free will

Avoiding the Internet

September 26, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

I just watched this good video by CGPGrey on YouTube about his journey coming to realise the effects the internet, (social and traditional media, blogs, podcasts, etc) are having on his brain. It’s admittedly a slow and long video to… Continue Reading →

Life 2018, life

Pattern of One

September 23, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Our brains have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the most advanced pattern matching systems in the known universe. This extraordinary feat is what allows us to do many of the complex interactions that make up our… Continue Reading →

Life 2018, psychology

Flow 2.0

September 21, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

Flow is one of those concepts I’d been talking about for years with friends without actually having read the original book. After going back and reading it this week, I was pretty disappointed. I feel the definition put forward by… Continue Reading →

Mental Models 2018, awareness, consciousness, flow, happiness

The Philosophy of Trash

September 17, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

It’s pretty obvious to most of us how much culture influences our lives. Many of our norms and views come from the city/country that we live in. However, what is less obvious is how something as strange as garbage collection… Continue Reading →

Humanity 2018, urban planning

Concepts: The Foundation of Consciousness

September 7, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

When you understand consciousness as a complex information system, then concepts become the foundation of each experience. A single experience is made up of many concepts that combine together to form one moment of experience. So when you look at… Continue Reading →

Mental Models 2018, consciousness

Walls of Shame

September 7, 2018sebastiankade Leave a Comment

As you introspect more and more you realise there are parts of your mind that seem to be off-limits to exploring. It feels almost as if someone had built a wall there preventing you from going further. I’ve found that… Continue Reading →

Life, Mental Models 2018, shame

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