Books

Written, and returned to.

A few books of my own, and a small shelf of others I keep close. Each one, in its way, has helped me think about the same question from a different angle.

Written

  • 01 · 2025

    The Age of Intelligent Economies

    Shaping the Future of Human–AI Collaboration and Autonomy

    Available

    A long look at what happens when intelligence itself becomes infrastructure, how value, work and agency shift when systems begin to act on their own, and what leaders owe the humans still inside the frame.

    Find it on Amazon
  • 02 · 2021

    Business Impact of AI

    Advanced Business Models and Their Influence on Future Jobs

    Out of print

    Written as artificial intelligence was quietly moving from novelty to nervous system. A book about the shape of the workplaces we were, without quite noticing, beginning to build.

  • 03 · 2012

    Global Harmony Disruption

    Unlocking Global Opportunities in Mobile Music Distribution

    Out of print

    An earlier life, spent thinking about how music, mobile networks and emerging markets were rearranging one another. The questions were different. The underlying one, how technology reshapes what people share, was already the same.

Companions

Not a reading list. A set of books I return to.

  • 01

    Mindfulness for All: The Wisdom to Transform the World

    Jon Kabat-Zinn

    A call to take the practice of attention beyond the cushion and into the shape of society. In an age of acceleration, it is a reminder that the most radical act is sometimes simply to be here, together.

  • 02

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    A story about seeking and finally listening. It asks whether wisdom can be taught or must be lived, a question that feels newly urgent when knowledge is everywhere and understanding is scarce.

  • 03

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    A book about the possibility, at every moment, of choosing. Timshel. It taught me that human agency is the deepest subject of literature.

  • 04

    Vita Activa

    Hannah Arendt

    Labor, work, action. Arendt gives us the vocabulary to see what a purely automated life would quietly take from us.

  • 05

    The Master and His Emissary

    Iain McGilchrist

    A patient argument that how we attend to the world is how we make the world. Nothing has shaped my thinking about technology more.

  • 06

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl

    The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any set of circumstances. A reminder of what no machine will ever hold for us.

  • 07

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    A private notebook, still speaking to us across two thousand years. Proof that self-examination is the oldest form of technology.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka