The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Every week, I ask my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances that are part of my social networks (Twitter and LinkedIn) a simple question:

"What is the book that changed your life? (not novels or religious texts)"

I think it's a wonderful way to connect in a less superficial way and learn a little more about each other. It's also a wonderful way to discover new books worth reading.

This is one of them (the full list is here):

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Ayn Rand

From Amazon:

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

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Alessandro Perilli
At the bleeding edge of technology, helping world innovators and dreamers.

I am a contrarian thinker with 23 years of business and product experience in the enterprise IT industry.

I have a track record in identifying (before most) hugely profitable markets and new use cases for emerging technologies. I also have a track record in identifying over-hyped emerging technologies that eventually have little to no business impact.

I'm currently focused on the following emerging technologies and future markets:

Generative artificial intelligence
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and Finance (DeFi)
Human body augmentation

I'm an expert in business and product strategy for the following areas:

Enterprise IT governance for on-premises and cloud management
Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR)
Event-driven automation and machine learning for self-healing IT environments
Open source innovation

So far, I've been a:

Tech executive, focused on business and product strategy for Red Hat
Advisory Board member for the European Commission initiative HORIZON CLOUD
Global analyst, leading research in private cloud computing for Gartner
Entrepreneur in the media industry as the founder of virtualization.info
Advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies
Co-author of the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
Author of a cybersecurity book for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Creator of one of the first ethical hacking trainings in the world for Mondadori Informatica

Also, I am:

Founder of the H+ research project about human body augmentation technologies
Inventor: US Patent 10778701 - Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools
Keynote speaker for 20 years in a row
Art collector and former corporate sponsor for Tate