Journal of discoveries #10

Welcome to the 10th issue of the newsletter, “Journal of discoveries.” Each week, I check a curated list of hundreds of sources of inspiration to spot interesting articles, videos, podcasts, and books on personal development, leadership, management, technology, and innovation.

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Here is a selection of what grabbed my attention this week.

Personal development

How learning happens. The coyote’s anguish. Enrich your stories with charts, maps, and tables. So you're thinking about writing on the internet.

Innovation

Introducing network effect #16: hub-and-spoke (TikTok). Wonder tools newsletter. Everyone wants to work for big, boring companies again. Barcelona, smart city. Y Combinator: the institute of innovation. The human insights missing from big data. The world’s most popular social networks, and who owns them. Tech investors are prizing cash generation again. How to build trust in a marketplace. Will we download our minds into new bodies?.

Leadership and management

What’s most needed from managers now. In a work-from-anywhere world, how remote will workers go?. Designing work that people love. Do not bring your whole self to work. Checklist for hybrid meetings. Stop making the business case for diversity.

Books

Playing to win: how strategy really works by A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin.

Twitter lists

Here are the Twitter lists from which I get most of the ideas and inspirations. Please note that the categorization is, of course, quite subjective.

• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Management and Leadership
• Visual Ideas

I also share on Twitter and Instagram visual illustrations about personal development, management, leadership, and innovation.