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Explicit to Implicit to Tacit: Summaries of noble books by eminent authors.
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Global population decline does not preclude new chapter of economic growth from happening:
Global population decline does not preclude new chapter of economic growth from happening:
In different times economic growth kicked-off of gains from newly identified efficiencies and broad behavioural change
Daniel Gusev
Jun 20
Saint Augustine’s City of God
Saint Augustine’s City of God
A reference guide on the Creation — and a design book for the ideal communal relationship based on a religious moral compass
Daniel Gusev
May 9
History rhymes
An eternal strife between the individual intellectual thought and the collective faith.
Daniel Gusev
Apr 7
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing — by Peter Robinson
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing — by Peter Robinson
A telling story about a “financialisation” of the manufacturing competence, that earned Boeing the status in the past, as well as delivery…
Daniel Gusev
Jan 9
A review of “The Great Transition” by Emmanuel Daniel
A review of “The Great Transition” by Emmanuel Daniel
A intellectual foray in the accelerating pace of change — and shape — of financial services
Daniel Gusev
Nov 27, 2023
Review of “The Delivery Man” by Sebastien Taveau
Review of “The Delivery Man” by Sebastien Taveau
A bold and reassuring tale from a veteran payments innovator
Daniel Gusev
Nov 27, 2023
Part I: 1930ies & Soviet Russia criticising “capitalist West” while acquiring its tech and…
Part I: 1930ies & Soviet Russia criticising “capitalist West” while acquiring its tech and…
The very same time shopping on credit for technical tools built by the world that shall crumble.
Daniel Gusev
Apr 16, 2023
A unique (personal) relationship between Soviet Union and the United States in the 20th Century
A unique (personal) relationship between Soviet Union and the United States in the 20th Century
Originally planned as (just) a book review, now also a collection of several articles on the matter of cooperation and ideologies that…
Daniel Gusev
Apr 10, 2023
Carlota Perez – Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
Carlota Perez – Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
Went through https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1843763311/ while doing a research of past growth cycles.
Daniel Gusev
Dec 18, 2022
A Book Map on contemporary Russia
A Book Map on contemporary Russia
A book nut that I am, studying well researched books on times of not so distant past captivated me. Especially one concerned of a major…
Daniel Gusev
Dec 8, 2022
A contrarian view from a leading diplomatic mind of the US:
A contrarian view from a leading diplomatic mind of the US:
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
Daniel Gusev
Mar 12, 2022
Book Review: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Book Review: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Lucy’s weekly column in the The Financial Times that I subscribed over a decade ago always carried wit and charisma through which she…
Daniel Gusev
Jul 16, 2021
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
Where I read this book several years ago, it still resonates clearly — amid new instability between now Russia and the US, cancelling Open…
Daniel Gusev
Jun 13, 2021
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate by Michael Dobbs
A well planned and meticulously researched book that provides a bout of fresh air, despite decades spent on the subject and countless…
Daniel Gusev
Jun 13, 2021
Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Tristan Donovan won my heart with Replay: The History of Video Games and repeats with a story about the cola wars
Daniel Gusev
Jan 12, 2020
Books Jan 11th 2020
First time I read about how tech either influenced or suffered an impact from gender employment was in Bernardo Batiz-Lazo book about ATM…
Daniel Gusev
Jan 11, 2020
January 1–10th 2020: New books to read
January 1–10th 2020: New books to read
New additions, bold plans, ambitious conquests
Daniel Gusev
Jan 9, 2020
Robert Caro: Working
Robert Caro: Working
A titan shares his quirks in a short book — as if a reprieve from the work on his monumental 5th volume on LBJ
Daniel Gusev
Jan 9, 2020
Technology innovation in Financial Markets: Implications for Money, Payments and Settlement…
Technology innovation in Financial Markets: Implications for Money, Payments and Settlement…
Book — A PhD paper review
Daniel Gusev
Jul 23, 2019
Neil MacGregor: History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor: History of the World in 100 Objects
A story well told often needs an object to feel, touch and relate to: mission accomplished for a former head of the British Museum who…
Daniel Gusev
May 8, 2019
Neil MacGregor: Living with the Gods
Neil MacGregor: Living with the Gods
A beautiful book pondering questions about how religious beliefs shaped societies and how societies formed religion — told through…
Daniel Gusev
May 8, 2019
Book Review: Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking — by Bernardo Batiz Lazo
A qualitative and quantitative study of a major fintech innovation that set the standard for online banking, online authorization and…
Daniel Gusev
Feb 26, 2019
Book Review: Writing on the Wall: Social Media — The First 2,000 Years — by Tom Standage
News bring joy and sorrow — they inform, illuminate, warn, prepare — sometimes they are misused to misinform, confuse and frighten — yet…
Daniel Gusev
Feb 26, 2019
Book Review: “All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation” by Diarmaid MacCulloch
A collection of essays about Reformation by a renown world-class specialist
Daniel Gusev
Feb 19, 2019
Book review: “The Republic of Letters” by Marc Fumarolli
Book review: “The Republic of Letters” by Marc Fumarolli
A study of of a collective that upheld intellectual debates at times of religious hatred and in part made the intellectual Renaissance…
Daniel Gusev
Feb 19, 2019
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