Category: Books
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A look at books in 2024 and for 2025
As always this year I took a note of the books I have consumed. I say consumed because books are not just read anymore, they are listened to as well. It came to 36. 16 read and 20 listened. As the year is ending, the last book of the year is Hope for Cynics –…
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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | Book Positive
How is technology and our online interactions impacting us? The even more important question is “how is it impacting the younger people”. I can attest that it has significantly impacted me at this age and when I took a 90 day detox it made me realize how much my online persona had eaten into the…
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The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
Sharon McMahon‘s ’The Small and the Mighty‘ tells you the story of 12 Americans who changed the course of history. School Teachers, a telephone operator, a poet on a train, a young boy detained in a Japanese concentration camp (We still call it internment camp when it was really a form of incarceration) and others.…
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How Stupid Am I Really ?
Reading through 350+ pages on stupidity… On the psychology of stupidity to be precise. A few things have become clear. I have been stupid way more times that I will publicly accept. And everyone I have known has been stupid in atleast on one occassion. They might not accept but I have felt so. And…
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Stories that hit us hard
Dan Heath’s book ‘Upstream’ starts with a story which has come to my mind over and over. And every time it hits hard… Two people standing next to a stream see a baby floating. One of them jumps and saves the baby. Immediately they see another baby floating. The other person jumps and saves. Then…
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How we spend our days
Sometimes a whole week of work with all its turbulence, confusions, learnings and self reflections finally boils down to a few minutes talk on a Friday and you say “that was a worthwhile week… Not perfect but productive”. And yes you say a Thank You! a big Thank You ! This ‘Thank You’ can be…
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327/365 What to read and how?
How do you read what you need to read? Read and listen to be precise. A few months back I made a list of things I needed to read. Here is what I came up with and I knew all this would not work out. But I wanted to address the ‘HOW’ only after I figured…
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319/365 Book Reviews Vlogging
Book Reviews Vlogs, which I call Book Introduction, are one of my most favorite videos. I have a personal benefit when I do Book reviews. One is that I get to connect with some of the Authors. Another reason is that doing a vlog of the book will help me solidify what I understand from…
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243/365 Read books or listen to them?
I know it is close to two months since we hit 2022. And I think we still have enough time to talk of reading and learning. Last year I read around 30 books across a wide range from business to history and psychology and memoirs. But this year I decided not to take it slow.…
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73/365 Ten Years back I wrote a Novel
A November Sunday was the Novel I wrote… around 56 thousand words… completely written in a moving train as part of my daily commute to San Francisco in 30 days in a November in 2011. Not sure if I should call it a Novella instead of a Novel Every year folks come together to write…
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