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Big news - you only have a few days left to pre-order my book. After 7 September you'll just have to order it.
Book promotion norms have fallen apart since Elon killed twitter so I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do to sell it.
So here's a scheme I came up with on the tube yesterday; if you send me some sort of proof of purchase for this book I'll send you a free copy of my next one. It's a BOGOF.
Caveat: I have only a vague idea of what the next one's going to be, it might not happen, it might be rubbish, etc.
Ben told me about this podcast. It's done by the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. There are no annoying ads because they don't need the money. And they invest in all sorts of businesses so he gets great access, and he asks sharp, quick, blunt questions. This interview with Adam Grant is, inevitably, management guff. But it's densely packed, potentially useful management guff.
You're always going to snag me if you talk about batteries powered by human tears.
Julia Perry's Symphony for Viola and Basses is unexpectedly spiky. I think of them as the gloomy instruments.
Angela Duckworth is the world's leading expert on 'grit' which you'd expect to mean determination, persistence, 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' but she's more nuanced than that and points out that challenge without support will eventually kill you. She speaks of "allostatic load" which seems a useful term. It's the wear and tear of stress on the body. Useful as a diagnosis & a metaphor.
I won't take any more of your valuable September evening. It's the best month!
(There are 899 of you. The Ducati 899 Panigale is a sport bike which surprised observers by topping UK sales charts in December 2013, at a price five times higher than the number two seller, the Honda CBF125 — a situation compared by The Telegraph to the Ferrari California outselling the Ford Focus.)