Category: Book reviews
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Sometimes a book finds you just at the right moment in the right place when you are not even searching for anything in that specific field. Apart from the sheer pleasure of spending an afternoon in a nice bookstore, this kind of chance encounter is why we still need to support our local shops and…
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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…
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#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…
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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…
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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…