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Author: Ludvig

Book review/Philosophy

Slave of the Passions

Posted on 12th May 2022 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

Can we really trust our emotions? Modern human societies are full of people who end up in very bad places because they got entangled in all kinds of destructive...

Book review/Essay/Philosophy

Two Modes of Living

Posted on 1st May 2022 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

There is likely no experience more human than that of feeling trapped by one’s circumstances. How people deal with this experience seems to vary enormousl...

Essay/Philosophy

Learning from the Extreme

Posted on 1st August 2020 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

When he was fourteen years old, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch witnessed the death of his older sister Sophie from tuberculosis, at a time when there was no...

Book review/Philosophy

The Evolution of Mediocrity

Posted on 4th April 2020 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has for a long time been the most widely accepted secular explanation for how living organisms change over time. In t...

Essay/Organizational design

On Tyranny

Posted on 25th December 2019 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

In Ancient Greece, a tyrant (τύραννος) was someone who seized absolute power over a city by force, without due consideration for tradition or law. The word did ...

Book review/Management

The Fog of War

Posted on 1st September 2019 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

The photo above was taken by Robert Capa, the only civilian photographer to follow the Allied troops landing at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Capa took 106 photo...

Book review/Philosophy

The Origins of Reason

Posted on 28th April 2019 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

What does it mean, to be rational? This is the question that Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber ask in their revolutionary book, The Enigma of Reason. This book was a...

Book review/Philosophy

Does Reputation Matter?

Posted on 7th January 2019 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

It is fascinating to observe how people become obsessed with their reputation. This is especially true in the era of social media. I find this fascinating becau...

Book review/Management

Radical Candor

Posted on 26th December 2018 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor is a truly fascinating management book. You can tell it is a good book because it is hard to summarize. Each chapter is fi...

Book review/Philosophy

The Art of Dealing with Difficult People

Posted on 9th September 2018 by Ludvig / 0 Comment

The modern relevance of Stoic ideas is beautifully explained by the American philosopher William B. Irvine in two of his books, A Guide to the Good Life: The An...

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