Bill Gates’ reading habits
November 24, 2019
November 24, 2019
On choosing books to read
November 23, 2019
November 23, 2019
There are couple of ways to choose your next read. Go to a bookstore and pick the latest book or the book of your liking. Read online book reviews and…
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
October 21, 2019
October 21, 2019
I’m anxiously waiting to read Cosmos by Carl Sagan after finishing my current read of Far Out Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal by Mark Liechty
Far Out: an ongoing read
October 13, 2019
October 13, 2019
Far Out Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal by Mark Liechty is a comprehensive read on Nepal’s tourism experiences in the postwar era, hippie counterculture in the 1960s,…
How Bill Gates reads books
October 2, 2019
October 2, 2019
Insightful, interesting, and inspiring!
Mastery by Robert Greene
August 28, 2019
August 28, 2019
Mastery by Robert Greene is on my book bucket list now. A friend of mine found this book very useful and highly recommended it. I read several book reviews of…
A couple of my friends are currently reading AI Superpowers China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order. By hearing them talk about the book made me want to read…
The coach
July 27, 2019
July 27, 2019
All managers should, in part, be coaches. This is from the Picking up the Bill article on The Economist (May 25th 2019). Gallup, a polling organization cites research showing that…
Shoe Dog
July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight was a book on my Book bucket list for 2019. I wrote then “When I went to college,…
Beginner’s Mind
June 23, 2019
June 23, 2019
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. – Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
The Sixth Man: A Memoir
June 22, 2019
June 22, 2019
Just found out that Andre Iguodala, the sixth man of the NBA champions Golden State Warriors has a book “The Sixth Man” coming out on June 25, 2019. Andre Iguodala…
Some valuable wisdom…
May 29, 2019
May 29, 2019
I love this paragraph from Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog. It’s about the time when he wrote about the long-term prospects of Blue Ribbon and how he saw the future. “This…
My next read: Shoe Dog
April 18, 2019
April 18, 2019
Publish yourself
March 18, 2019
March 18, 2019
You should write a book by Seth Godin from his podcast, Akimbo.
Book bucket list for 2019
December 31, 2018
December 31, 2018
Here are 19 books that are in my book bucket list for 2019. My plan is to read these books over the course of the year. Becoming by Michelle Obama…
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
October 24, 2018
October 24, 2018
Being a huge fan of Kobe Bryant, I can’t wait to get this book The Mamba Mentality: How I Play. The book’s Amazon page goes like this: The first book from…
Rules for Deep Work
September 24, 2018
September 24, 2018
Cal Newport’s Deep Work Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World is nicely summarized by Productivity Game. Three rules for doing Deep Work are: 1. Schedule distractions – Schedule…
Kul Chandra Gautam’s Global Citizen from Gulmi
August 30, 2018
August 30, 2018
I’m looking forward to reading Kul Chandra Gautam’s Global Citizen from Gulmi. Launched in Kathmandu, Nepal in early August 2018, the book chronicles the life of Kul Chandra Gautam’s from the hills…
I stumbled upon Tim’s podcast with Catherine Hoke – The Master of Second Chances. Catherine Hoke is the founder of the non-profit Defy Ventures and its vision is to end mass incarceration by using entrepreneurship…
Death of an Industry: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal
June 6, 2018
June 6, 2018
I recently came to learn about Mallika Shakya’s book Death of an Industry: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal. I have been wanting to learn more…