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How to manage the Coronavirus COVID-19 crisis

SARS-CoV‑2 — How to manage the Coronavirus Crisis

Com­plex sys­tems, cor­po­ra­tions, economies, organ­isms, or ecosys­tems, tend to become ever more com­plex. Due to a mul­ti­tude of depen­den­cies, com­pe­ti­tion, rela­tion­ships, and other types of inter­ac­tions between their parts, and dis­tinct prop­er­ties, s.a. non­lin­ear­i­ty, emer­gence, spon­ta­neous order, adap­tion, and feed­back loops, com­plex sys­tems are dif­fi­cult to model. The Coro­n­avirus SARS-CoV‑2 is an exoge­nous shock to our ecosys­tem. How to man­age the Coro­n­avirus cri­sis to make the world a bet­ter place? Besides reading

March 22, 2020

Why German Venture Capital doesn’t take off

In Ger­many there are 4 (four) VC com­pa­nies with con­sid­er­able funds with­in the range of EUR 100 mil­lion or above. Tak­ing into account that Ger­many is one of the biggest economies world­wide this fact is a short­com­ing, to say the least. Why is that? One pos­si­ble answer you’ll find watch­ing this talk with Marc Andreessen. Marc describes the “Amer­i­can Way of fund­ing a Start-up” as “fund it, scale it, and then look for a business

Feb­ru­ary 27, 2009

Schwarze Schwäne und die Normalverteilung

Die Men­schen im 21. Jahrhun­dert, aber auch die Men­schen in allen Jahrhun­derten zuvor, han­deln und richt­en ihr Denken an der Nor­malverteilung aus: Man beobachtet das, was nor­malverteilt ist und blendet die Aus­reißer aus, da sie nicht dem Gewöhn­lichen entsprechen. Inter­es­san­ter­weise scheint der Lauf der Welt aber nicht vom Typ­is­chen, Nor­malverteil­ten, abzuhän­gen, son­dern primär durch die links und rechts neben der Nor­malverteilung, den aussergewöhn­lichen, schein­bar unvorherse­hbaren Ereignis­sen bee­in­flusst zu wer­den. Diese

Novem­ber 18, 2008

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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