Book Reviews

This is a strange book. Book that hooks you from 1st paragraph onwards. I read this when I was young. I could not understand the hidden message in it.

It is a concise book. If you have been a regular reader of Hindu literature – none of the writing is eye opening. The best thing about the book is how Thich Nhat Hanh can explain methods of meditation.

Bill Gates himself has written a review for this book on GoodReads. Factfulness has a very similar premise to Freakonomics

Short but very thought provoking. Its 50 page, 1500 word essay. Available on Amazon India for INR ~2500. Recommended to me by Shrikant Somani, Head of Sales at GreyAtom.

I have 10 doctors in my immediate family. This book was an impulsive airport pick. Before reading this book I knew that the Indian healthcare stories are full of corruption, commercialization and medical negligence but after reading this I now know the magnitude of the situation and it is alarming at the very least.

Written by a self-confessed Anglophile, Autobiography of An Unknown Indian is a witty and endearing account of Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s life. The book delves into the mind of the author as he takes his readers down memory lane to a pre-independence India. Written in a sarcastic manner that takes potshots at both Indian as well as British cultures, this book is one of the early works of Indian literature written in English.

Crockford tells us how to avoid the pitfalls and write reliable code using the language of the Web, which is not going away soon. The 5 hour Web Series by Yahoo on YouTube by the same name is even better. Crockford is a tech entertainer. Lectures are arresting and insightful.

Click! is conversational, educational & personal. It makes conversion rate, KPIs, and sales funnel more relatable. Definitely recommended for anyone working on a commercial website.

The best thing about this edition is the spread of topics under the Theme of ‘AI in Education’. It will broaden your horizon on quantitative possibilities in Education.

It looks like Reid Hoffman spent a year in GreyAtom and wrote the book. Focuses on the approaches and mindset needed to scale anything.

Mathematical modeling is being applied in every major discipline in the biomedical sciences. A very different application, and surprisingly successful is in psychology such as modeling various human interactions and predicting divorce.

This book was first published in 1928. Written by an American Wilbur Deming about an Indian – Marathi Saint – Samarth Ramdas. Western perspective on what is religious matter to Maharashtrian. Some management lessons here.

The reason I am writing this review is that – something in the book clings to you. You should be open to re-read. This book raises questions; does not answer them. There is NO moral insight in the book.

This book gives examples of educated guessing and approximation methods to evaluate functions, or to get information on functions that are too hard to evaluate. Recommended for mathematicians only. The engineer in me found this interesting.

Honestly, my vocabulary and English as language improved after reading this book. For the first time, I could feel the flourish in the language. If somebody had told me I’d love a romance before I read this book, I would have laughed derisively.

The exercises force you to engage. I discovered that my normal reading speed is 265 words per minute with 66% comprehension. I had managed to reach 800 WPM by end of the book.

Dalio’s advice for individuals and companies boils down to harnessing the power of feedback, iteration, and improvement in response to failure.

The Tipping Point describes the concept of why certain goods, firms, writers, etc. are highly popular (tip), while others never seem to break away as something special from the masses.

Gives an insight into the structure of the Indian urban and rural consumers. Outstanding book for beginners.

Learned how to think, breathe, inter-relate, eat, and exercise in the best interest of my heart health. Get ready to read real science. Get ready to read that you need to stretch and meditate. Get ready to believe that you are capable of taking care of your heart.