Category: Books

See this. In the recent past, I’ve been observing an interesting pattern — I end up reading books closely related to each other, and one complements the other perfectly. In this case, I had been reading The Road Less Travelled, and it meshes perfectly with this book! I’ll skip my personal reflections on this book,…

Re-reading an old favorite, and encountering once again the thrill of identification and discovery! Like work experience is to an MBA, the wisdom in this book makes more sense the more life-experience I get. The last section (Grace) is the weakest, but that is again a reflection of where I am in my journey right…

I used to listen to the Akimbo podcast when I had the bandwidth, and have been an avid follower of Seth Godin’s blog for ages. I’m fully on board with the philosophy he espouses and was hoping this book would be an opportunity to tie up all the different threads that he has into one…

This was a memento from my colleagues at Shell when I was leaving. How wonderfully apt – something that captured my interests (chess and AI)! This book seemed like it would get into these topics at a philosophical level, rather than the nitty-gritty details. Or so I thought. I was anticipating an enjoyable read, and…

This is a book that India needs now.  It is fantastically well researched – how the researchers went about gathering their data and drawing correlations from multiple sources is as fascinating as their conclusions.  It gently highlights the absurdities of the well-intentioned Indian state: Ordinarily, one places solar plants in the path of direct sunlight.…

I stopped reading after a few chapters. This book glorifies and promotes the worst aspects of human nature – I’ve seen enough of this crap when I was working to not want any part of it anymore. The world would be a much better place if everyone collaborated towards shared goals, rather than wasting time…

This is Bastiat’s ‘The Seen and the Unseen’ for the 20th century. A few quotes: As a consumer, he may advocate or acquiesce in subsidies; as a taxpayer he will resent paying them This is so true! All the economic protests that happen build on this nature, except that we don’t even realize that we…

I’ll eventually organize my thoughts, but a few reactions: This book should be dedicated to Steven Pinker. No matter what aspect of business one may pick up, here’s how to look at it in a positive light The amount of data to back up the positivity is of course, amazing I’m going to skip the…