As we grapple against the pandemic of COVID-19, an impending dormant outbreak is awaiting its turn. This upsurge has been brewing since some decades and might eventually render humans vulnerable and defenceless. I’m insinuating...
This book is no ordinary compilation. It is a revelation. It shakes the fundamentals of the theory of “Laws of Averages” and radicalizes the “Gaussian Methods” in a deft and iconoclastic manner. Taleb is irreverent of the...
On occasions, I’ve been broadly wrong in my attempt to paraphrase a book that I have read. And on many an instance, I have been broadly right as well. Although, in both the cases, I never have been precisely right. The Old Man...
The world that we inhabit is a huge place. Compare it with our home Solar system, and earth is humbled in size. Our Sun manages to consume more than 99.8% of the mass of our Solar system. So, it’s left to our imagination, how...
We all have revered the inventors and discoverers of our generation and of the past. We have stood in awe of their ingenuity and brilliance and wondered how they must have inquired the logic that eventually led to the inventions...
The Art of War compiled well over two thousand years ago by a mysterious Chinese warrior-philosopher, is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, studied both by military leaders and...
If you are a parent, I’m certain you must have sung a few English rhymes to keep your child entertained. I had my fair share too at singing these kids’ rhymes to my son, during his infancy. However, I do now realize that most...
This book breaks down the complex tone of Globalization to its bear minimum understanding. Thomas Friedman is decisive about the benefiting effects of Globalization and speaks of harshness too, in no meager terms. The book offers...
You must have come across a few people who were dealt with extreme adversities and trauma and despite those challenges have went on to achieve greatness in life. It is their sheer courage and grit that enables such momentous...
I first saw this book at the roadside bookstall at Mumbai along with my office colleague. I was looking for the book by Ruchir Sharma – The Breakthrough Nations but ended up picking this book for my library. I was drawn into...
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