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Book summary: Why Nations Fail
Why Nations Fail The book is a good read on why some nations are rich, and some are poor today. While the book Breakout Nations provides useful information on the current status quo of many countries,...
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Book Summary: How not to die by Dr. Michael Greger
The book is a detailed introduction on how what we eat can kill or save us and how the modern diet is making people sick. This book’s companion website is NutritionFacts.org. This book and its summary...
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Book Summary: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim...
The book posits a unique viewpoint to understand randomness and unpredictability in the world around us. Rather than trying to predict the improbable black swans, it focuses more on how not to be...
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Book Summary – Everybody Lies
The book takes a data-driven approach to analyze the world. Both married and unmarried people exaggerate how often they have sex. Search for sexless marriage is 3.5 times more common than an unhappy...
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Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism is a philosophy of technology in which you focus your online time on a few carefully selected activities that support the things you value. Digital Minimalism Addiction is a...
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Book summary: Antifragile by Naseem Nicolas Taleb
Another great read in the Incerto series by Taleb. The core idea is that certain systems benefit from uncertainty. And our goal should be to make all systems antifragile, so that, they can benefit from...
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Book summary: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
The book is a great read about how money and wealth are acquired, preserved, and lost. And that too not because of the market but because of the individual’s psychology. Psychology of Money Doing well...
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Book Summary: Red Notice by Bill Browder
The story of the rise and fall of the biggest foreign investor in Russia. Bill Browder was born in a Jewish family in the United States. His father was a math genius. His brother was a math genius. His...
View ArticleBook Summary: A philosophy of software design by John K Ousterhout
The book summarizes teachings of John from the course CS190 that he teaches at Stanford. Good system designers get to spend a larger fraction of time in the design phase. Poor designers spend most of...
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The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes is a short book consisting of quotes by Taleb. Unlike his other books, this book is mostly a collection of quotes. Procrustes used to stretch/amputate his guests who won’t fit on...
View ArticleBook summary – Magicians of the God by Graham Hancock
The book Magicians of the God is an interesting thesis around a lost civilization. Wikipedia has a scathing review calling the author, Graham Hancock, a pseudo-historian. However, the book has some...
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Book summary of Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives is a collection of 40 short stories, describing what could happen in our afterlives. Here are my key takeaways from the book. Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives...
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Book Summary: One Man’s View of the World by Lee Kuan Yew
One Man’s View of the World is a book written in 2012 by Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Kuan Yew is one of the most impressive leaders of the 21st century. In 1965, Singapore was dejected from Malaysia for not...
View ArticleSelected quotes from “How I Invest My Money” by Joshua Brown and Brian Portnoy
The reasons behind our portfolios and investment choices reveal a lot more about us than we might initially think. Half of all US mutual fund portfolio managers do not invest a cent of their own money...
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Book Summary: Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by...
The book takes a nuanced take on the uncanny marriage of corporate America and the “woke” social justice movements. The author, Vivek, was born to an immigrant Indian family, studied at Harvard, worked...
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Book Summary: Staff Engineer by Will Larson
The book talks about what it means to be a staff engineer. It is an interesting read for those who would prefer to stay on the engineering as opposed to the management track of career growth. Staff...
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Book Summary: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test is an intriguing book by Rob Fitzpatrick about how to do user research and validation of one’s product idea. The Mom Test Until you get specific with an idea, all products seem good. Don’t...
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Book Summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The book is a memoir of John Perkins who worked as an economic hitman. New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Companies in developed nations target resource-rich poor nations with potential...
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Book Summary: The half-life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman
The Half-Life of Facts is a provocative book that makes us realize that a lot of facts that we believe are factually true get overturned over time. It gives several examples of facts that were later...
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Book Summary: Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke
Thinking In Bets is a book by professional poker player Annie Duke. Its a book about better decision making under uncertainty. Thinking in bets All Facts have a half-life. Many scientific facts have...
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