February 2014

From data to your heart’s desire

Isn’t that fan­tas­tic? 50,000 women have — vol­un­tar­i­ly — got preg­nant in the last 18 months with the help of an app! At least this is what fer­til­i­ty start­up Ovu­line’s CEO Paris Wal­lace said this week. The Ovia fer­til­i­ty app has been down­loaded 300,000 times and users are adding 1 mil­lion data points every two and a half days. This makes Ovu­line’s fer­til­i­ty panel the largest in the world. In the big data world,

Hack Schooling — A Better Education Model For Our Kids?

If you are a par­ent of school kids like me you’re most prob­a­bly won­der­ing whether this kind of school­ing is the best pos­si­ble way of edu­ca­tion. Most of us would agree that there’s a lot of improve­ment poten­tial in nowa­days west­ern school sys­tems. Ok, there are pri­vate schools — but, in most cases they are expen­sive and — at least in Ger­many — the edu­cat­ed con­tents have to be exact­ly the ones

A simple recipe: Success is the absence of defeats, not a victory.

What are you as an entre­pre­neur focus­ing on in your daily strug­gle to suc­cess? Are you look­ing for a vic­to­ry or are you mak­ing sure not to be defeat­ed? Be aware of this sim­ple recipe: Suc­cess is the absence of defeats, not a vic­to­ry. A vic­to­ry is the inevitable result of pre­vent­ing defeats. This is my cen­tral state­ment. What does that mean for your start­up? Let’s have a look at a crit­i­cal aspect in the

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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