Generally a good book with a lot of generic advices.
Accidental Empires - Robert Cringely - 2023-01-15
Good book on the history of computing.
Showed a lot of the underbelly of the tech ecosystem
Only the Paranoid survive - Andrew Grove - 2023-02-3 21:12
Nice book, couldn’t relate to a lot of it.
But, That is only because the book is aimed at high level management ideas
I might have to come back to this one.
lost Focus - Johann Hari - 2023-02-15 22:16
The book was good, but not great.
the middle chapters from simplistic Optimism were pretty interesting.
Could’ve skipped the initial chapter with the authors’ story of trying to be less distracted. I suppose, it adds for a good narrative. But, didn’t enlighten me as much as it could have.
Waiting for a Visa - BR Ambedkar - 2023-02-15 23:25
The stories are very moving and clarified a lot of misconception I had about Ambedkar’s life.
flatlands, A romance of many dimensions (1884)- Edwin A Abbot - 2023-02-19 22:7
Incredible book with great content
The idea of 2 dimensional and 1 dimensional and 0 dimensional worlds were very interesting. each representing a metaphor of peoples lives and worlds.
Long walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela - 2023-02-26 17:58
Being a law man and a freedom fighter is a combination that is very much a necessity, if one is about to stand up against law.
Being solid about ones resolve is very important to go through the struggle.
Leader’s source is people’s trust over their decisions and their willingness to participate in it. Overpromisisng and not achieving goals erodes that trust. So, leader’s have a dilemma of aggressively setting goals vs delivering the goals.
Designing Data Intensive Application - Martin Kleppman - 2023-02-25 17:58