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Epictetus was one of the famous stoic philosopher. He was born as a slave in current day Turkey. He spent most part of his life in Rome and then later moved to Greece. Enchiridion is modern day notes, so this essentially are contents of Epictetus notebook. These are some of my Kindle notes: Men are disturbed not …
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Cialdini to me appears to be father of social psychology. The book is one of the best and hugely recommended to anyone who is in selling business. {Are we all not selling business these days? 🙂 }. This book was recommended to me by Anurag I would strongly recommend each and everyone to read this …
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Spent reading Nudge this week. It was recommended to me by Anurag First half of the book reminds me of content and research papers discussed by Cialdini in his book Influence and Kahneman in Thinking fast and slow Nudge is a conscious kick we an individual need in making decisions. It can be ads simple …
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Finished reading Deep Work by Cal Newport. It is a 250 page odd read. I had high expectation from the book considering the aura, marketing created around it. Still I guess am able to recover price I paid for buying this book with some learnings. Cal has circled around his profession, Carl Jung secluded house, …
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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 …
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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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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