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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Most know for its Space Oddity performance on board of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield wrote this book in a format that resembles more a memoir than a guide. Reading it, ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Thinking Fast and Slow
Outstanding work from Economics Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman, on thinking process and how we miss the logic of things in our everyday decision making. The author uses the concept of two ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Science of Fear – Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t — and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
The terrorist attacks of 9/11/11 are the perfect example of how fear can put ourselves in greater danger. After seeing the airplanes hitting the World Trade Center on the TV, people decided that ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
How to Start a Career in Computer Science
Which way? I still remember asking myself in front of all the possibilities in the field of computer science when I had to decide which one to pursue. So many variables, so many technologies, so ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Speaking at CEO National Conference 2013 – Technology and Startups
Last Friday (November 1st) I spoke at the CEO National Conference about how to properly leverage technology in a startup. The event happened at the McCormick Place, and it was pretty fun! I ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Quick video for the 5th I.T. Symposium at the State University of Goias
A couple months ago I was approached by a former classmate who is now a Teacher at the University I graduated and the current coordinator of the Information Systems course at the same University ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
How to Create a Mind – The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Much like the Singularity is Near, and pretty much all other book from Ray Kurzweil, this one is certainly going to cause some stir in you. Ray tells you of how a mind can indeed be reproduced, ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Abundance – The Future is Better Than You Think
We’re used to hear about doomsday news every day, and we have literally become accustomed to the “fact” that we are a hopeless generation, that will soon become extinct by ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Reality Check – The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
This book is surprisingly entertaining, and covers pretty much everything you need to deal with a startup. It covers pretty much all the way from inception of the idea, going through raising ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Wealth of Networks – How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
I’ve said that before, and I’ll say it again: you know when a book is outdated when it keeps referencing MySpace and as a model for Social Networks. Unfortunately, this is not the ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Innovator’s Solution – Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
This book’s message could be easily summarized by saying that there are only two kinds of companies: the ones that disrupts, and the ones that are being disrupted. There is no middle ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Post-American World – Release 2.0
The title may lead you to think that the author is going to picture a pretty chaotic picture for USA in the next decade. Not true. In fact, it talks a lot more about the balancing out of power ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
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