Postivity and Vision of the Future
“Resource Rabbit Hole”
This Rabbit Hole will take you down a message of positivity and creativity.
The premise of Abundance is that we really can feel all 9 billion people and clean up the planet using the disruptive and exponential technologies that got us Google and Amazon.
Peter Diamandis, one of the authors, was founder of the X-Prize (fun book about that How to Make a Spaceship). (The X-Prize was a $10-million prize to the first privately financed team that could build and fly a three-passenger vehicle 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks)
The other co-author Steven Kotler is also the author of The Rise of Superman, another very fun book about how to “hack” Anders Ericsson’s “10,000 hours of mindful practice” for developing expertise. (Read/listen to The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle before The Rise of Superman)
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I’m a boring literal engineer type with very linear thinking. Between Alchemy provided me with a different way of looking at things (which I am always challenging myself to get better at.
He also has some TED talks, search “rory sutherland ted talk”, and some longer form videos. If you search for “rory sutherland ogilvy videos”, any of them an hour long or so will give you the essence of the book.
Bold, second in the “trilogy)
Five years later, the followup book Bold was pubished, which turned out to be the 2nd in a trilogy.
“We thought you would get it from Abundance, but it doesn’t seem like you did, so here’s the “recipe”. (my paraphrasing)
About the last third of the book is about crowd sourcing and incentive prizes, the crowd sourcing information is somewhat dated.
The Future is Faster Than You Think, third in what turned out to be a trilogy
The third in the series was released right before Covid.
This one I had to stop listening every once in awhile to process the information.
