The time has come for me to share the 10 books that stood out, had biggest impact and was most enjoyable of the 50 or so titles I read this year! ———————————— I feel like I can’t present this list without mentioning a few words about why I read and what I want from a […]
Creativity and Fear: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert book is both a tribute to creativity and a practical guide to how to nurture your it. Misconceptions are aplenty about what a creative life should look like, but you don’t have to quit your job, and spend a your days as a aquarelle painter, to live creativity. Everyone is creative! Everyone is […]
Thoughts on: “The Glass Cage” by Nicholas Carr
The book is about how bad automation erode skill and create unfulfilling jobs which in turn create a self-fulfilling prophecy where previously masterful people makes mistakes pitching in for failing automated systems – human errors that turn into arguments for even more automation. —- It’s easy to discard this books as technophobic but there is […]
Thoughts on: “Open” by Andre Agassi
I’m don’t care for sports, so it felt weird for me to tune into a thick biography of some tennis star I’ve never heard of. But I’ve heard good thinks from reliable sources so I decided to go for it. —————————————— I’m glad I did! —————————————— Andre Agassi’s father was a former boxer with a […]
Thoughts on: ‘Everybody Lies – Big Data, New Day and What the Internet Can Tell Us Who We Really Are’
The premise of this book is that big data is destined to have a big impact on social sciences. By analyzing millions of peoples behavior online we get access to data is not just new, it’s honest. It shows things previously hidden and private. ——————— The research presented in this book is based on Google […]
Thoughts on: Deep Work by Cal Newport
A friend mentioned that this book might be of interest to me in a discussion we had about one of my favorite books this year; The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. —————- While Carrs book is centered around why distractions are bad for us and the science behind it, Cal Newport focuses more on the importance […]
Thoughts on: ‘Shoe dog’ by Phil Knight
‘Shoe dog’ is industry slang for someone who has dedicated his or her life to the footwear industry. Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, is definitely is one of them. —————————————— He wanted to be an athlete but didn’t have the skills. Is there a way to experience what athletes did without being one? He […]
Raw & Unedited Notes: ‘So you’ve been Publicly Shamed’ by Jon Ronson
Disclaimer: These are the notes I took while reading this book and there might be missing quotation marks, unchecked facts and other errors. “And the one day it hit me. Something of real consequence was happening. We were at the start of a great renaissance of public shaming. After a lull of 180 years (public […]
Schizophrenic Review: ‘The Richest Man in Babylon’ by George S. Clason
—— Positive version —— For you who’s starting out making a life for yourself or come from dept and struggle to make ends meet, this is a good start point for learning about the workings of moneyz. Bull or Bear market aside, there are universal rules governing the accumulation of wealth. Through engaging parables and […]
New book Arrivals from the Mysterious Man Behind ‘Books on the Tub’
I Got a nice stack of books the other day from Mr. Books on the Tub. Have you read any of them? It was hard to choose which one to start with but I ended up with “The Glass Cage” from the author of “The Shallows”, Nicholas Carr. Which was one of my favorite books […]