The full title of the book is a bit too long: The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz. In comparison, the book is quite short. And the chapters and paragraphs are short too, a bit similar to blog posts compared to productivity/business books. The lessons however are packed and concise. The book starts…
Reading the title and that the speaker used to work in Motorola, catches my interest to view the recording. The presentation was okay, and the presenter he knows his stuff, especially since he was involved since before I was born, but in the end I don’t really quite get what he wants, or I don’t…
The title is a mouthful and I really think it needs better branding, although I can understand the logic when compared to other money/financial book or podcast, since the name is so descriptive, it is hard to mistake what Ramit Sethi is trying to say. I don’t know where I saw him first, but I…
I think I”ve written this book before but I felt like writing it again, as I recently joined a webinar which was about Railway and Systems Engineering. The presentation was full of interesting points and the slides were well made. There were diagrams drawn or excerpts from papers that explain complex concepts in simple summaries,…
I think George RR Martin, the writer of Game of Thrones, said that there are two kinds of writers; there are ‘architects’ who planned the story from the start, and they are ‘gardeners’ who planted the seed for the story and tended it till it grew. I think the writer of the Impossible Times trilogy…
I saw the advertisement for the TV show for this book, and I seem to recognize the main actress, so when I saw the book in Kindle, I thought I would give the book a read. Such a superficial reason, right? Yes, lately I seem to choose books to read based on what I see,…
I’ve just finished reading the first book from the Wheel of Time and it was a disappointment. I went to read the reviews to find a confirmation bias, and sure enough when I filtered the one star reviews, I found some that agreed my view, that the book was too bogged down in details. There…
I came upon this book which was on sale on Amazon Kindle for just GBP0.99. It had 40,000 reviews which means it must be read by a lot and hence it is famous. I flipped through the ‘read me’ feature and I was reading through the first few introduction, I felt that the story was…
This book is short. Too short I think, and if I hadn’t known better, I would have thought that it is just one of those hacks where the writer just plucks anecdotes and send it out to print. But I know the author and has seen a Netflix series about his books, so I understand…
A Jack Reacher series. I really like the first book, where the author, Lee Child, introduced a no-nonsense character that’s willing to bend things to uphold ‘justice’. That character was Jack Reacher. He was also methodical and thorough, always taking precautions and stacking odds on his side. It was entertaining and in certain ways, insightful….
