The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption

Discover how the proven business principles of beta testing can help you make better decisions, decrease overall risk, and improve the quality of your life, work, career, and all your projects!

Just like in software development, it pays to be curious, innovative, and experimental. This book will show you how to reframe existence, become anticipatory, and exercise agency to upgrade yourself to make the most of our uncertain and disruptive world.

Volume III - "Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World" - shares tactics, tools, and resources on how to create your personal and professional futures and stay relevant despite constant change and unpredictability.

This bestselling book covers a broad set of topics, including work and money, the relationship between innovation and failure, your economic life, education, longevity, agency, and meaning. We also provide insights and case studies on the creator economy, as it has never been easier to monetize a creative idea.

Anything that can be automated, cognified, decentralized, digitized, disintermediated, or virtualized will be. How can constantly learning, unlearning, and relearning help us build the capacity to thrive in this complex technological world?

In addition to examples and templates, this guide includes two Workbooks filled with toolkits and practical applications: "Beta Your Life Workbook: Create Your Personal Future" and "Education Workbook: Prepare Educators & Learners for Disruptive Futures". Everything you need to jump-start your decision-making!

Roger Spitz and Lidia Zuin draw on decades of insights from advising entrepreneurs, CEOs and their leadership teams in Silicon Valley and globally on evaluating their companies, competitiveness, strategic projects, innovations, and disruptions ahead.

A foresight strategist, investor, and writer, Roger's expertise lies at the intersection of futures studies and sustainable value creation. Lidia is a journalist, science fiction writer, and professional futurist.

Staying relevant is not a linear process, but a jumbled loop which you can untangle. Are you ready to learn the moves to becoming and remaining relevant? Then order your copy of The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III, and start making better decisions today!

Based in San Francisco, Roger Spitz is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential (Climate & Foresight Strategy), and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute. Roger has given over 100 keynote talks globally, frequently contributes across leading media, and has guest lectured at many of the world's most prestigious academic institutions. Roger has two decades of leading investment banking and venture capital businesses, advising CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders on their most strategic decisions, evaluating their organizations' competitiveness and disruptions ahead. He sits on several Advisory Boards of companies, Climate Councils, VC funds & academic institutions worldwide. A world-leading authority on foresight, sustainability, and transformative innovation, Roger has written four influential books as part of "The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption" collection, which became an instant classic. He publishes extensively on decision-making in uncertain and complex environments, with bestselling books in Future Studies, Green Business, Sustainable Economic Development, Business Education, Strategic Management & Forecasting. Roger is an inaugural member of Cervest's Climate Intelligence Council, a contributor to IEEE's ESG standards, and the Foresight & Sustainability partner of Vektor Partners (Palo Alto, London), an impact VC firm investing in the future of mobility. Techistential, Roger's renowned strategic foresight practice, advises boards, leadership teams, and investors on sustainable value creation. He developed the Disruptive Futures Institute into a preeminent global executive education center that helps organizations build capacity for futures intelligence, resiliency, and systemic change. Roger is also an industry-recognized expert on Artificial Intelligence. As former Global Head of Technology M&A with BNP Paribas, Roger advised on over 50 transactions with deal value of $25bn. He launched the bank's US M&A practice in San Francisco and built its European Technology investment banking franchise in London & Paris. Bilingual in English & French, Roger has lived in 10 different cities across three continents.

Dr. Lidia Zuin is a journalist, science fiction writer, and professional futurist. Lidia is the Technology Foresight Director for Techistential, and Faculty & Chair of the Center for Science Fiction at the Disruptive Futures Institute. Lidia holds a PhD in Visual Arts and a Master's Degree in Semiotics. She publishes regular columns on global emerging trends (Tilt UOL, O Futuro das Coisas) and has presented several TED talks (including on science fiction and technological innovation, biohacking, transhumanism, and the future of species). Originally from São Paulo in Brazil, Lidia was head of Innovation & Futures at UP Lab and professor at Istituto Europeo di Design, teaching "Foresight & Futures Studies: Exponential Technologies" in their post-graduate Strategic Design & Innovation program. She moved to Malmö, Sweden, in 2022, where she is a technical writer with technology leader Neo4j. Lidia is also a researcher in Emerging Tech with Envisioning. Lidia published her first science fiction novel in 2021 (REQU13M), and has been publishing short stories since 2010. She also has experience in the gaming and virtual reality industries, including writing about extended reality, immersive technologies, and videogames. As an academic researcher, Lidia has authored three monographs on science fiction, arts, cyberculture, and semiotics. Her papers have been published in both academic journals and books. As a pastime, Lidia likes to paint, play video games, and read.