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Senaca was one advisor to emperor Nero from Rome. He was also one of the founding father of stoics school of philosophy. In this chapter Seneca writes about our life and how short our life is in general. These are some notes from the book: Life is short, art is long. Our life is amply …
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I got to know about Hooked from One of my friend Chetan, as i was trying to understand why i am addicted to social media sites. Reading the book gave me the insight how our attention is getting hacked by these apps and how these product developers are playing with our mind. I could relate …
Pheww. 2017 is almost gone, what a fantastic year this has been so far. The year went by like a joyride with it’s own share of happiness, pain, losses and learnings. The best part of it all is that am still breathing and all of my body parts are working alright. In short, everything has …
I am a regular reader of Seth Godin blog, he is one of the best gurus on of brand building marketing. Being developer evangelist in my past job, I felt like reading this book. Seth writes in details about building a community of like minded people who are self motivated and can go to any …
I can happily admit that 2017 has been a year on my life when I spent good amount of time in reading, Madhav gets good credit for same. His Kindle gift got me hooked. These are some of my favorites, I have my notes added as well along with some of the books in list: …
Ray Dalio is a seasoned philanthropist, business magnet and a billionaire. He is also founder of Bridgewater Associates one of the most successful hedge fund, wealth management firm. Ray attributes his successful mantra for life, relationship and business to Principle: a decision making algorithm. According to him all aspects of our life should be governed more logically rather …
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What is going on the other side? The mind of people around you? Are we able to get the other side of story? We have our own predefined construct about some person or situation and if the result is favorable we are happy else we are in pain. It is not easy to read others …
Death is the reality of life and most of us are scared about it. We try accumulating so much of wealth & enormous materialistic possessions. I have no clue if the kings/queens/riches of mummified world are using them after death. I’ve been told that most of the wealth left behind by the wealthy nobility and …
Everything in life is temporary and as we grow older we tend to realize this even more. The school friend of mine whose lunch box used to be opened by all of us soon after he entered our class has disappeared, I don’t even know if he is alive. I am 32 now and as …
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor and also a stoic aka believer of stoicism, a school of Philosophy that flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century AD. The Meditations is his thoughts on various aspect of life as collection of books which are all combined as chapter here. These are some notes: All existing things soon change, and …
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