Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Decisive – How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
About 5 years ago, I had the chance of attending to one of the Heath brothers presentations, while at the Creativity World Forum 2008, in Antwerp. I loved their simplified approach to hacking ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Discoverers – A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself (Book One – Time)
This book is a treasure chest full of memories on how we have gotten where we are today. Learning of the past mistakes and successes helps us avoid present pitfalls and flirt with a brighter ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Even if you don’t plan to read it, you can’t get away without understanding the phenomenon described by Chris Andersen in his book The Long Tail and expect to thrive in the age of the ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Digital Disruption – Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
Short book, inspiring if you were born before 1980 and never been too much into the tech world or have never been an entrepreneur and want to understand the driver of today’s digital ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
You know when a book is outdated when it mentions MySpace as the leading Social Network, and makes short references to Facebook. This book was once very relevant, but now it is so outdated that I ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Reviewing The 21st Century Economy – A Beginner’s Guide
If you’re that kind that often feels lost at lunch time when people begin talking about economy, the various indexes and acronyms, and economics theory this is the book to ease your pain. ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
What Google Trends Has to Say About Censorship
While studying about censorship and the term interest trends world wide, I decided to check on Google Trends and see how interest have been on the subject. The results are astonishing and ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Lucky or Smart? Fifty Pages For The First-Time Entrepreneur
Quick read, features some relevant lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. I somewhat enjoyed the book, but wasn’t much impressed by it. Maybe it would be more useful if I’ve never read ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Free – How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit
We’ve all used free services, and we all love it when money doesn’t seem to fly out of our pockets. Free high quality e-mail, web search, photo sharing, social network, open source ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Start With Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
If you’ve ever started a business, or tried to sell something, you’ll certainly recognize the patterns described by Simon Sinek. We think of the what to describe a product or service. ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Review – Presentation Zen Design and Super Apresentações (Super Presentations)
I bought this book a few years ago, while I was preparing for a presentation but only had a chance to skim over quickly to look for some inspiration. At that time I also bought the book Super ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Nanobots that will deliver insulin on demand in your bloodstream
Talking about Singularity, and how some of Ray Kurzweil predictions are already coming true I found this research that developed a nanobot capable of mimicking the pancreatic activity and deliver ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
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