mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: TakeOff 2008 Presentation
Date: Apr, 20 Apr 08 00:43:21 GMT

Here’s my presentation at TakeOff 2008 at Coimbra:

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/TakeOff%202008%20MV.pdf

Following the trend on the last couple of weeks I’m
not in a blogging mood. I’ve been mostly twittering
to sort of make up for it but in fact lately I’ve been
more into tinkering/hacking and playing guitar (I guess
to make up for the lack of both in the last 3 years).

I’m several posts due but I’m not in a hurry; the urge
will soon be back for a lot of stuff; right now I’m just
enjoying the personal battery recharge period.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: 40
Date: Apr, 05 Mar 08 12:28:21 GMT

I’m officialy an adult: I turn 40 today.

Next up: get a haircut and get a real job :-)

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/gethaircutgetrealjob.jpg

Not too many posts in the last days; and neither this
weekend but I promise a post early this next week about
the turning 40 singularity…

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Paradise Alley
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 08 17:28:21 GMT

If you come across one Mario Valente in a London/UK
glam band called Paradise Alley, keep in mind that it
wasnt me but my brother Mario “Nuggy” Valente…

http://web.archive.org/web/19970217132356/http://delinquent.com/paradise.html

http://web.archive.org/web/19970311074658/delinquent.com/paradise.jpg

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/Image034.jpg

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— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Book Queue
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 08 16:30:21 GMT

It looks like I havent updated my reading status in
a while:

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2008/Jan/cat.cgi?Xmas%20Queue

I have finished up all three (God Delusion, Zen Guitar
and 10 Rules). Meanwhile I have been buying some single
items whenever I find them, since I always have to have
something to read and the next big queue update (from
Amazon) is coming up on only on my birthday (in a few
weeks).

Stuff that is/was on the queue:

The Goal
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0566086654/
( read it; brilliant!; see http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Sep/cat.cgi?ToC%20and%20CCPM )

Civilization
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Civilization-New-History-Western-World/dp/0099526069/
( read it; brilliant!; obligatory for anyone wanting to discuss politics)

Open Business Models
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Business-Models-Henry-Chesbrough/dp/1422104273/
( yes http://mv.asterisco.pt/2008/Jan/cat.cgi?Brussels%20Fault%20This%20Time
I am still reading it; its so boring that I want to be a lion tamer…)

Steppenwolf
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Steppenwolf-Essential-Penguin-Hermann-Hesse/dp/0140282580/
( currently reading it; not my usual kind of stuff, but a picture perfect
portrait of the heavy mental; strange to see someone has been here before…
coincidence or not, this book is the source of the name of a band that
first talked about “heavy metal” in the Born to be Wild song, a one hit
wonder…. )

Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
http://www.webboom.pt/ficha.asp?id=162520
( on queue )

Peripheral Vision: Seven Steps to Seeing Business Opportunities Sooner
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peripheral-Vision-Seeing-Business-Opportunities/dp/1422101541/
( on queue )

Blue Ocean Strategy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-Uncontested-Competition/dp/1591396190/
( on queue )

I have also gotten up to 1983 in my fathers Readers Digest collection

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Aug/cat.cgi?Readers%20Digest
http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Book%20Reading%20Update

And, during last week, taking advantage of being “unemployed” and
going through early spring cleaning and organization, I have also put
in order and have been reviewing my magazine collection (Wired, Red
Herring, Business 2.0, Fast Company, Technology Review, Linux Journal,
Strategy + Business, Industry Standard, Harvard Business Review, Edge
and Game Developer)

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/Image030.jpg

Here’s 15 years of Internet in Wired issues, from 1.1 April 1993 to
16.02 February 2006:

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/Image031.jpg

— MV