I used to not like driving long distances. However, in the last few years, I have started enjoying drives which are about 3-4 hours. Recently, I was traveling on business to Franklin, Tennessee (which is near Nashville). Nashville is a great and...
Not all of us are Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or Dhirubhai Ambani. School system is a proven and great way to get someone out of poverty and also to ensure that each of us leads successful and healthy lives. The vast number of people who...
Hokkien is a Chinese dialect. It was spoken in Singapore in addition to Mandarin. Lee Kuan Yew, the then Premier of Singapore, was not a big fan of this. They ran Speak Mandarin campaigns (instead of a Chinese dialect like Hokkien). All of Lee Kuan...
How to create Habit-forming products? Nir Eyal’s book Hooked is a very useful tool for marketers. It gives an insight into the science of habit-forming products. Nir Eyal, in his book Hooked, talks about how to create habits that people want...
Thanks to Ryan Van Hoozer. When I was chatting with Ryan, he talked about the Innovators by Walter Isaacson. I decided to give it a read and am thankful that I read it. Walter writes, ‘Great ideas are a result of ideas that flow from a large...
We always talk about Vision and Purpose-driven leaders who played a major role in revolutionizing society and bringing change. Anyone can preach, but only people with determination and vision can practice what they preach. A great leader who...
Running effective meetings is always a challenge. We all have different needs when it comes to running our meetings? Meetings can make or break a company. With all of us working together in a distributed manner, running effective meetings is...
The Vision Driven Leader, a book by Michael Hyatt, is a great read for leaders and everyone. A company to sustain, grow and keep growing needs to have a vision. You could also call it Purpose. What is the reason for the existence of a company is...
I am reading the Innovators by Walter Isaacson. Thanks Ryan Van Hoozer for recommending this book. In his book, Walter writes about the invention of the Computer. Walter talks about many scientists, including George Stibitz, Herman Zuse, and more...
Chromepet is a suburb in Chennai and also home to Madras Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT is also the campus the former President of India, A.P.J Abdul Kalam went to. I visited Chromepet recently and had to use the railway crossing near Saravana...
Thanks to the Round Rock Public Library. I am really glad I got to read Michael Dell’s Play Nice But Win. The book has two stories running in parallel. The odd chapters are based on the privatization of Dell, and the even chapter talks about How...
Thanks to Selvan D for gifting me this book (Deep Purpose by Ranjay Gulati) to read. A company needs to have a purpose to exist. The author also talks about the purpose of convenience. He cites the example of Facebook where they looked at...
Conflict of Interest is a term we usually see in legal contracts. According to the dictionary here is the synonym for Conflict of interest: “a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in...
The Splendid and the Vile, written by Erik Larson, is a book on Winston Churchill’s leadership during the bombing of London (World War II). It references the first year of Churchill as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( The making of...
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a book written by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. NVC means you communicate with compassion. The author explains the four components of Nonviolent Communication. 1. Observations, 2. Feelings, 3. Needs, and 4. Request. It is...
A famous saying in Tamil on money lending- ‘கடன் அன்பை முறிக்கும்’ – (Debt breaks friendship). One thing I have heard people say about lending money to friends is ‘it is as good as charity’. Don’t expect them to return the money and be okay...
This blog talks about Karthik's key takeaways from 4 hour workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
A colleague of mine Bharat Kulkarni recommended this book ‘The Psychology of Money‘- by Morgan Housel. As I was recently traveling and needed something to read on the plane, I picked this one up. It was a relatively simple & short...