The book
Living in Exponential Times
A book for understanding this change of era without panic or euphoria: what is really happening with AI, what it means for your work, and what you can do about it.
Interactive edition · 20 news items added this week · 147 linked to the text.
Carlos Galve25 years in exponential technologyHow to get it
Three formats, the same book
Choose how you want to read it. All three formats give you access to the interactive platform: print and eBook come with an activation code, and exponential reading already includes it.
- Physical bookAmazonThe printed edition, with the book's plates and infographics plus QR codes that open the interactive version of each chapter.
- eBookAmazonThe same work to read on your e-reader or phone, with the platform's activation code inside.
- Exponential readingRead on the web19,90 €The full book on the web, linked to concepts, updated data, a mentor that cites the text, and diagnostics about your own situation.
What you'll learn
Four readings that bring order to the exponential era
The book gives you four editorial frameworks — not yet another methodology, but lenses to read change with your own judgment.
- 01
The 3 T's · Tell noise from change
Transversal, transformational, transcendental. Three questions to apply to any change in your sector so you know where to act and where to merely observe.
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The 3 A's · Where AI is in your work
Automate, augment, anticipate. Three maturity stages so you can locate yourself and design your next operational move — not on tech, on judgment.
- 03
The 4 redefinitions · Which questions open
Create, work, learn, govern. Four historical certainties have opened up as questions at the same time. The book helps you name them in your own life.
- 04
EXOS · An operating system, not another methodology
Six interdependent blocks — vision, portfolio, cadences, data & AI, people, governance — that apply equally to the company, the person and society.
Why trust this
19 of the book's claims, audited live against the evidence.
Over twenty-five years on the frontier between technology, AI and the future of work. He advises companies rewriting their operations with AI and teaches teams to decide when the rules of the game change every quarter. This is the book he himself needed to read five years ago.
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