Living in Exponential Times

A book about an accelerating world ages while it is being printed. That is why every copy — print, eBook or web — opens an interactive edition that stays current: the text doesn't change, reality is folded into it.

Interactive edition · 17 news items added this week · 229 linked to the text.

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  The news, linked to the chapter it belongs to

  Each week, what actually happens in AI enters the book where it belongs. Not a separate blog: living notes inside the text you have already read.

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  A mentor that cites the book, not the internet

  Ask it anything about any chapter: it answers with the text in hand and points you to where each claim comes from.

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  Diagnostics about your case, not about the average

  The exposure test, your profile and your plan turn the reading into decisions about your actual job — not into good intentions.

The week's essentials in AI and exponential tech · 7 Sept – 14 Sept

The book gives you four editorial frameworks — not yet another methodology, but lenses to read change with your own judgment.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

Over thirty 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.

Carlos Galve·30 years in exponential technology

The AI exposure test is free and takes two minutes. When you finish you'll know where the change reaches your work — and which chapters of the book matter to you first.