Category: <span>book club</span>

Few books I’ve loved reading

July 19, 2021

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…

Any questions?

July 1, 2021

These days I’ve become more fascinated by the power of questions and the journey to unlock really good questions to activities, decisions, and the world around me. In my research…

Book summary of The Sixth Man: A Memoir

February 2, 2020

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…

Morning routines for success

December 2, 2019

If you flip the pages of Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, you will find many stories of successful people describing their habits, routines and what they do on a…

That seagull

November 6, 2019

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was not your regular seagull. If Jonathan was a regular seagull, I probably won’t talking about him neither would you. Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly, loved…

The L!BRARY Initiative

October 30, 2019

Having attended a New York City public school, I can still vividly remember our school library. It consisted of a few hundred books but was hardly a place where most…

Far Out: an ongoing read

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

Insightful, interesting, and inspiring!

Shoe Dog

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,…

The same dream

July 6, 2019

“God, how I wish I could relive the whole thing. Short of that, I’d like to share the experience, the ups and downs, so that some young man or woman,…

The Sixth Man: A Memoir

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…

A Nepal Detective Story reading

April 2, 2019

Arne Drews will be reading from his book Demons A Nepal Detective Story on April 7, 2019 at Kathmandu Guesthouse in Thamel.

Sapiens

January 12, 2019

I started reading Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind. Some initial points from the book that I found profound and gripping. Three important revolutions shaped the…

Book bucket list for 2019

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…

Rules for Deep Work

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…

Binod Chaudhary My Story book review

September 9, 2018

Binod Chaudhary My Story From the Streets of Kathmandu to a billion dollar empire is a story of one man’s ambition, determination and vision. Binod Chaudhary’s autobiography provides insights into…

A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us

June 26, 2018

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…

What’s normal in America?

June 22, 2018

Recently I started reading the book The War on Normal People The truth about America’s disappearing jobs and why Universal Basic Income is our future by Andrew Yang, Founder of Venture…

Joy of completion

April 2, 2018

The joy of completing a book is priceless. I’m excited to acquire new knowledge and perspective by picking books on a variety of subjects. I recently picked up a book…