Pattern Recognizing by Magnus Lindkvist Vox 2009-12-19T09:44:21Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd9718a5d54cd5/ Speaker of the year 2009 tag:vox.com,2009-12-19:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd50123f189c4e1860f 2009-12-19T09:07:49Z 2009-12-19T09:44:21Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Yesterday, it was announced that I was voted Sweden's Speaker of the Year in 2009. I am overwhelmed and overjoyed at Talarforum's announcement. If you voted, thank you. Below is a clip from an interview with me on Swedish TV (unfortunately in Swed...

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]]> Months of neglect tag:vox.com,2009-12-13:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd50123ddddc1d1860c 2009-12-13T09:20:07Z 2009-12-17T13:04:42Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Dear Blog, Sorry I've been away from you for so long. I really have no reasons (only excuses, which I won't bore you with). Life IRL is great. I just came back from a one-week tour of Dubai and Istanbul and the autumn has been full of fun speaking...

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]]> Summer reading list tag:vox.com,2009-08-13:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd5011018613834860f 2009-08-13T07:56:18Z 2009-09-16T01:40:09Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Free: The Future of a Radical Price God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do Ab Everything We Know Is Wrong: The Invisible Trends That Shape Business, Society and Life

Is it any wonder, some people ask, that Sweden's productivity stats are so poor given that the entire country shuts down for over a month every summer? Well, I'll reply, given that there's nothing to do but work from October to April (when Califor...

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]]> Pre-order my book tag:vox.com,2009-06-27:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd501101623a5dd860b 2009-06-27T07:18:23Z 2009-07-04T13:24:57Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Tentative cover...tweaks being made as we speak

Everything We Know Is Wrong - The Trendspotter's Handbook is released on September 15th. Pre-order your copy here. From the backcover: Why do grownups believe that the world is just like when they were growing up and that everything happening...

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]]> Inside account of Tesla Motors tag:vox.com,2009-06-25:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd5011016a21022860d 2009-06-25T18:02:19Z 2009-06-25T18:02:19Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The problem with following business biographies is that they tend to be written many years after events occured. Electric Car company Tesla Motors is an exception, however. Read a wonderful, scary account of what's been going down behind the scene...

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]]> How trends get started tag:vox.com,2009-06-14:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd50110165e0922860c 2009-06-14T08:29:41Z 2009-06-22T08:31:40Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Call it the Heinz effect...

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]]> How China commemorates the "Tiananmen Square Incident" tag:vox.com,2009-06-06:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd501101656bf41860c 2009-06-06T07:52:29Z 2009-06-06T07:52:29Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom With Umbrellas!

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]]> Three citylinks tag:vox.com,2009-06-05:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd50110183097ca860f 2009-06-05T09:00:09Z 2009-08-19T11:24:25Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Getting ready to speak about the future of regions and cities in a few weeks time, I've come across some interesting stuff in the past 24 hours. There's Steven Johnson's TED speech about a city's resilience. There's DesignBoost excellent collecti...

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]]> Until the cows come home tag:vox.com,2009-06-04:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd5011016906b30860d 2009-06-04T09:07:15Z 2009-06-05T06:50:10Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

"If you build it, they will come..." Waiting for Bovine Intervention

A friend of mine sent me these pictures showing over 3,000 people making a pilgrimage to Dalarö, outside Stockholm, to watch the annual first outside grazing for about 20 cows. Is there a trend in this? W

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]]> Choked by a slipped halo tag:vox.com,2009-05-29:asset-6a00cd9718a5d54cd50110160e4af0860b 2009-05-29T18:32:58Z 2009-05-29T18:32:58Z Magnus Lindkvist http://magnuslindkvist.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A couple of years ago, I read Phil Rosenzweig's seminal The Halo Effect about how we idolize certain companies, brands or phenomena to the point of blindness. I can't help thinking of this syndrome as I read yet another article showing the murky, ...

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