Reflections are only that, reflections, nothing more nothing less. Often these reflections are related to books I read, but occasionally also other things. These are often written very late, very fast,  using notes from my mobile phone, so the grammar and spelling is horrible.

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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, by Hannah Fry
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions, by Stephen Hawking
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Ecological Civilization and the Belt and Road Initiative as a two global concepts
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Global Citizenship in Reality: The 2017 Climathon as a Transformative Event (Keynote)
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CASS Forum, Guangyuan, Sichuan Province: Ecological Civilization (Keynote)
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Zero to one, by Peter Thiel
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The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF)
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Click here to save everything, by Evgeny, Morozov
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
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Wabi Sabi: the Japanese art of impermanence, by Andrew Juniper
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Remembrance of Earth’s Past (地球往事), a trilogy by Liu Cixin
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More, by Matt Parker
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, By Steven Pinker
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Bad books: Some initial thoughts
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A Science/Ethics-matrix for risks in the 21st century, or the problem with “optimism”, and the need for a risk perspective
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The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
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Ghostwritten, by David Mitchell
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When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
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Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, by Edward O Wilson
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"How Will You Measure Your Life", by Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon and James Allworth
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Too much of a good thing, by Lee Goldman
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The man who knew infinity, by Robert Kanigel
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Notes on the Death of Culture, by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Submission, by Michel Houellebecq
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Superforecasting, by Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner
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The Resurrectionist, by Eric Hudspeth
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

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A very well written book by Mohsin Hamid that put the readers in many different places (physical and mental) by following one person’s journey. A journey from the global entrepreneur without history or values to a reflecting person that do not want to live in a capitalist world where everything that is solid melts into air...

"it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of the outside is now within us"

By using the current cracks in the global village Mohsin Hamid captures something urgent (the way the west have dealt with the "Arab world" after 9-11), but also a much bigger issue regarding identity and the western systems inability to provide significant gratifications beyond the material.