Marty Cagen’s Inspired has a simple success recipe for an organization. Hire a bunch of smart, independent people. Define a process, which has a roadmap and timelines. An outcome will be a successful product. I always had this back of my mind, and we have worked with amazing people all these last four years. A […]
Category Archives: Book Reading Notes
Bhujia Barons
I picked Bhujia Barons because I have been snacking Haldiram‘s for over a decade now. The author has not done enough justice to the story. I felt like reading some newspaper article. The book is about the origin of the brand Halidirams from Bikaner and branching out laters in India Nagpur, Kolkata, and Delhi. Like […]
Lessons to lead by
In the last chapter of the book, The ride of a lifetime, Robert Iger shares his life lessons. I am adding limited ones I could resonate well, read the book for the rest others : Great talents tell great stories. Innovate or die. Avoid mediocrity Take responsibility when you screw up. Treat everyone with fairness […]
On Leadership, Robert Iger
Robert Iger is executive chairman of Walt Disney and was formally CEO of the company. In his book: The Ride of his Lifetime, he talks about his leadership principles. Robert’s shared his leadership principles in the book’s prologue. Optimism Courage Focus Decisiveness Curiosity Fairness Thoughtfulness Authenticity Integrity The relentless pursuit of perfection I let you […]
Shoe Dog
It was 5-6 months back when Karthik had recommended the list of autobiographies. Shoe Dog was one of the recommendations besides a dozen others. Sometimes we need encouragement and autobiographies like these help. It resulted in me reading Shoe Dog. I enjoyed every page of the book; It was like a script out of a […]
Lifespan
In Lifespan, David Sinclair writes about how we are going to live much longer. He also points getting old is a disease, and we can live much longer. In the initial chapter, he cites how we started dying less at an early age because of advancements in medicine and science. With time and our sedentary […]
Let’s build a startup
Let’s build a startup book talks about Harpreet S Grover’s journey in building CoCubes. I could relate myself more to it because I grew up in a middle-class family in a small town in India. These are some notes I took away from the book: Parents: Indian parents are paranoid about starting a startup. Some […]
population bomb
These are the screens I captured from Lifespan by David A. Sinclair. It makes me wonder what we have done with all the progress in an economic and cultural sense. Are we even going to leave this planet for our next generation at the rate we are creating destruction? The pace at which we are […]
no limits
I am halfway reading Mukesh Bansal: No Limits; picked it from Karthik. The book is about Mukesh’s journey and his learning about the well being of us. I found its collection of content from dozen-odd books on various subjects from physical, mental well being. So if you would like to know about us humans, how […]
Aging
Started reading lifespan by David A. Sinclair. The book talks about aging and argues it to be treated like any other disease. Excerpt from the book. These are the multiple hallmarks of aging. Genomic instability caused by DNA damage. Attrition of the protective chromosomal endcaps Alterations to the epigenome that controls which genes are turned […]