Month: November 2024

Book Review 2024.15: Originals, Adam Grant, 254 pages, Paperback, 2016 Picked up this book during my routine quarterly visits to Blossoms book shop on Church Street, Bangalore earlier this month. I was quickly hooked on to this book while browsing through it the Metro ride back home. I finished this book in two weeks, much longer than I expected, which is a result of the numerous triggers in the book that led me explore new concepts and topics in the …

Book Review 2024.14: Hooked, How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal, 214 pages, Paperback, 2019 -November 11, 2024 This is a short and insightful book, that is invaluable for anyone interested in digital products design. How I wish I had read this book a decade earlier when our team was designing a digital portal to automate corporate law compliances for Indian corporates secretarial automation. The utility of this book is not only in the crip framework it prescribes, but also …

Book Review 2024.13: 50 Philosophical Classics, Tom Butler-Bowdon, 317 pages, Paperback, 2022 -November 2, 2024 A book to be savored, to be read at leisure and when required reread more than once, as it offers new insights to reevaluate our views on issues that appeared crystal clear like democracy, meritocracy and scientific method, in addition to revealing new lights on feminism and the impact of social media. I read this book on influential western philosophers in over three months, in …