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Category: Book reviews

  • What I learned about Brands and Consumer Goods after reading Stephen King

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    This post will serve both as a book review and sharing-a-learning text which is always a great combination. As I also want to start reviewing more fiction, I will show here that you can get valuable knowledge that is applicable to many practical sides of life even from the seemingly “not-real-world” stories or fantasy. You…

  • “Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World” by Matt Alt

    #FridayBookReview This time a book I knew I needed to read asap when I learned about (somehow took me quite a while to get around to it though…). With such a profound impact that Japan have had on the global popular culture there should have been libraries already written on this subject—alas, Matt Alt’s “Pure…

  • “Emergent Tokyo: Designing The Spontaneous City” by Jorge Almazan

    It’s hashtag#FridayBookReview time again and I have amazing book to cover. “Emergent Tokyo: Designing The Spontaneous City” has been on my radar after a few great reviews I read and I can only join in praising this book. The authors take a new approach in explaining what makes Tokyo a unique city staying away from…

  • “The Japanese Consumer” by Penelope Francks

    With this post I am starting a series of updates on the books I am reading that could be useful to my connections here on LinkedIn. One could ask, why read books in the age of GenAI and podcasts? Well, most importantly a good book can still be lots of fun, same as it was…