Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight – When I went to college, there was only one company I wanted to work for after graduation and it was Nike. This was one of the reasons why I studied abroad in Amsterdam, The Netherlands which was very close to Hilversum where…
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30 Stories: Miki Agrawal
@mikiagrawal Story by @thestorieshub “Iteration is perfection.” That’s my favorite saying and I’ve always been fascinated with the process of discovery, invention, and rapid improvements. Growing up, I was told I could be whoever I wanted to be and had big dreams. However, along the way, society had set all these expectations of me on what I…
Book summary of The Sixth Man: A Memoir
I had put the book The Sixth Man: A Memoir by Andre Iguodala of the NBA champions Golden State Warriors on my book bucket list last year. I’m thrilled to have just finished reading it. The Sixth Man is a beautifully written memoir. The book chronicles Andre’s upbringing in Springfield, Illinois, his high school and…
Sean “Diddy” Combs w/ Mentor Ray Dalio
Sean Combs sits down with his mentor Ray Dalio to talk about Ray’s book Principles, how to find excellent people to join your team and much more.
On choosing books to read
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 buy it online/at a bookstore. It’s much easier to find great books to read nowadays. Although at times I’d like to pick a book without…
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
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
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, and adventure destination in the 1970s. I picked up Far Out when I attended its book launch at Martin Chautari. Having read about 100 pages…
How Bill Gates reads books
Insightful, interesting, and inspiring!
Mastery by Robert Greene
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 Mastery on GoodReads and Amazon and most of the readers were raving about the book.
AI Superpowers China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
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 it as well. I’m really looking forward to reading this book. If you have read this book already or are currently reading it, do share…
The coach
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 when managers involved employees in setting their own work goals, the latter are four times more likely to report feeling engaged. Managers are responsible for…
Beginner’s Mind
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
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 is one of my favorite NBA players and I have followed him over the years. I took a keen interest in his tech investments and…
Some valuable wisdom…
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 last line was wholly truthful. It was worth shooting for. If Blue Ribbon went bust, I’d have no money, and I’d be crushed. But I’d…
Publish yourself
You should write a book by Seth Godin from his podcast, Akimbo.
Book bucket list for 2019
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 This is a memoir of the First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role. I’ve always found…
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
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 the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant―a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all time. In the wake of…