Ramblings of a Developer
Admiral William H. McRaven served as a Navy SEAL for 37 years. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S Special Operations Forces. Make Your Bed is Admiral William’s first book. This was actually a commencement speech he delivered in University of Texas. He elaborated it further into a book. … Read more
Chetan Bhagat is an internationally acclaimed Indian writer known for his work in fiction. Some of his books have been adopted into Bollywood films which have gone on to become some of the highest grossing films in the industry. He also authored some non fiction works but the book: 11 Rules For Life is his … Read more
There is no dearth of self-help, personality development books in the market. I have read many and reviewed a few out of them on my blog. Lot of times the actual message gets lost amidst the examples and case studies. Some become hard to read as you progress into the book. Others might be too … Read more
In this book “Make Epic Money”, the author Ankur Warikoo talks about: Ankur also talks about some of the mistakes we make while dealing with money and also talks about general biases which we have. These biases are general enough to apply in any area of life. In the investment section Ankur talks about all … Read more
As we age we are all plagued by famous diseases like hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, arthritis, cognitive disabilities and to some extreme cases cancer. Surprisingly these diseases have started showing up as early as in the 30s. The modern day stress and lifestyle has fast tracked the appearance of these diseases. We all accept this … Read more
I stumbled upon the book “The Dairy of a CEO written by Steven Bartlett” but I didn’t pick it to read thinking it was more for the CEOs or managers. It sounded kind of a business book. But I was wrong. This is book is more about the individual, I would say 75% individual and … Read more
We all have experienced and been experiencing stress in life. We are all fighting at multiple fronts: jobs, parenting, health, finances, pollution, politics to name a few. These are affecting our quality of life and we are getting stuck deep in them with each passing day. If we are able to identify the problem its … Read more
Digital Minimalism is about how to de-addict yourself from social media and other digital services that hijack your precious time. In the first of the book Digital Minimalism the author Cal Newport talks about: In the second part of the book Digital Minimalism the author talks about some of the practices you can follow to … Read more
In the first part of the book Superlife the author Darin Olien explains the 5 life forces which are the driving factors to lead a healthy and fit life. The 5 life forces he talks about are: The author explains how to improve each of the life forces and how these life forces are connected … Read more
The author, Cal Newport, in the book Deep Work throws light on two types of work anyone can do: The whole book is about the importance of allocating more time from one’s work schedule to deep work and the strategies one can follow to increase their time allocation to deep work. He also discusses the … Read more