Bookshelf

Reading is a fun way to experience life and go on an adventure! It is important to make time to read what's fairly academic and super profound. To maintain lifelong curiosity, I use multi-disciplinary approach to select and read deep and wide array of books. Below are my book summaries.

• Lean Analytics | Use Data To Build A Better Startup Faster by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz | May 02, 2024
• Shape Up | Stop Running In Circles And Ship Work That Matters by Ryan Singer, Jason Fried | March 10, 2024
• Competing Against Luck | The Story Of Innovation And Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan | March 05, 2024
• Measure What Matters | How Google, Bono, And The Gates Foundation Rock The World With OKRs by John Doerr | February 29, 2024
• A Man For All Markets | From Las Vegas To Wall Street, How I Beat The Dealer & The Market by Edward O. Thorp | January 28, 2024
• Algorithms To Live By | The Computer Science Of Human Decisions by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths | January 27, 2024
• A Little History Of The World by E.H. Gombrich | January 05, 2024
• Same as Ever | A Guide To What Never Changes by Morgan Housel | January 01, 2024
• The Creative Act | A Way of Being by Rick Rubin | January 01, 2024
• One from Many | VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock | November 01, 2023
• Thinking In Systems | A Primer by Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright | October 31, 2023
• High Output Management by Andrew S Grove | September 19, 2023
• Extreme Ownership | How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead & Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | August 25, 2023
• Beyond The Prototype | A Roadmap For Navigating The Fuzzy Area Between Ideas And Outcomes by Douglas Ferguson | July 03, 2023
• Continuous Discovery Habits | Discover Products That Create Customer Value & Business Value by Teresa Torres | June 27, 2023
• Complexity | The Emerging Science At The Edge Of Order And Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | June 15, 2023
• The Making Of A Manager | What To Do When Everyone Looks To You by Julie Zhuo | May 26, 2023
• Charlie Munger | The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin | May 24, 2023
• Range | How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein | May 15, 2023
• Fooled By Randomness | The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | May 02, 2023
• Trillions | How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever by Robin Wigglesworth | March 10, 2023
• The Wisdom Of Finance by Mihir Desai | February 24, 2023
• The Little Book That Builds Wealth | The Knockout Formula For Finding Great Investments by Pat Dorsey | February 08, 2023
• The Outsiders | Eight Unconventional CEOs & Their Radically Rational Blueprint For Success by William N. Thorndlike, Jr. | January 25, 2023
• Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t | Why That Is And What You Can Do About It by Steven Pressfield | November 14, 2022
• On Writing | A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King | November 11, 2022
• Draft No. 4 | On The Writing Process by John McPhee | November 10, 2022
• On Writing Well | The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser | November 07, 2022
• Bird By Bird | Some Instructions On Writing And Life by Anne Lamott | November 05, 2022
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White | November 01, 2022
• Boyd | The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram | October 25, 2022
• Elements Of Design | Rowena Reed Kostellow And The Structure Of Visual Relationships by Gail Greet Hannah | October 20, 2022
• Geometry Of Design | Studies In Proportion And Composition by Kimberly Elam | October 15, 2022
• Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman | October 07, 2022
• Interaction Of Color by Josef Albers | October 05, 2022
• Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg | October 05, 2022
• The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte | October 03, 2022
• Design As Art by Bruno Munari | September 28, 2022
• As One Is | To Free The Mind From All Conditioning by Jiddu Krishnamurti | September 20, 2022
• Paul Rand | A Designer's Art by Paul Rand | August 25, 2022
• Dieter Rams | The Complete Works by Klaus Klemp | August 20, 2022
• The Art Of Doing Science And Engineering | Learning To Learn by Richard W Hamming | August 07, 2022
• Endurance by Alfred Lansing | August 06, 2022
• Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell | July 24, 2022
• Build | An Unorthodox Guide To Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell | July 16, 2022
• The Hidden Life Of Trees | What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries From A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben | July 15, 2022
• Walking by Henry David Thoreau | June 22, 2022
• The War of Art | Winning The Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield | June 19, 2022
• The Most Important Thing | Uncommon Sense For The Thoughtful Investing by Howard Marks | June 17, 2022
• The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing | The Only Way To Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C Bogle | May 30, 2022
• Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley | May 28, 2022
• The Storytelling Animal | How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall | March 31, 2022
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | March 12, 2022
• Connect | Building Exceptional Relationships With Family, Friends, and Colleagues by Carole Robin Ph.D. | January 31, 2022
• Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe & Patty Civalleri | December 28, 2021
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | December 15, 2021
• Poor Charlie's Almanack | The Wit And Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter D Kaufman | December 04, 2021
• Play Bigger | How Rebels And Innovators Create New Categories And Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson & Christopher Lochhead | October 27, 2021
• A Brief History Of Earth by Andrew H. Knoll | September 10, 2021
• Finite And Infinite Games by James Carse | September 03, 2021
• The Psychology of Money | Timeless lessons On wealth, Greed, And Happiness by Morgan Housel | July 24, 2021
• Beyond Coffee | A Sustainable Guide To Nootropics, Adaptogens, And Mushrooms by James Beshara | July 12, 2021
• 7 Powers | The Foundations Of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer | July 06, 2021
• The Water Dancer | A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates | June 15, 2021
• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough | April 12, 2021
• A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking | February 14, 2021
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Adventures Of A Curious Character by Richard Feynman | December 24, 2020
• Leadership In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin | December 05, 2020
• How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M. Christensen | November 12, 2020
• Siddhartha Novel by Hermann Hesse | October 20, 2020
• The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert | October 12, 2020
• The Great Crash 1929 by John Galbraith | September 20, 2020
• Living With A SEAL | 31 Days Training With The Toughest Man On The Planet by Jesse Itlzer | August 28, 2020
• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant | August 22, 2020
• Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann | July 10, 2020
• Being Logical | A Guide To Good Thinking by Dennis Q. McInerny | July 09, 2020
• Cracking The PM Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro | July 02, 2020
• Seeking Wisdom | From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin | July 02, 2020
• Born A Crime | Stories From A South African Childhood by Trevor Noah | June 16, 2020
• The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho | May 12, 2020
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie | May 03, 2020
• Creativity Selection by Ken Kocienda | April 03, 2020
• Let My People Go Surfing Inc by Yvon Chouinard | March 05, 2020
• Get Together by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto | February 01, 2020
• Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull | July 28, 2019
• Sapiens | A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | September 23, 2018
• Seven Brief Lessons Of Physics by Carlo Rovelli | September 23, 2018
• Shoedog by Phil Knight | September 04, 2018
• Deep Work by Cal Newport | June 17, 2018

• A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• The Last Lecture
• When Breath Becomes Air
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
• Grit
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
• Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home
• Man's Search for Meaning
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
• Dark Matter
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• How Google Works
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• The Great Gatsby
• The Intelligent Investor
• The Creator's Code The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
• Start Something That Matters
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• Steve Jobs
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
• The Martian