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...
We like it or not, COVID19 has disrupted the way we work in a big way. People working in technology have been the biggest beneficiaries of this pandemic. The technology stocks and the markets are on the rise (and highly inflated). When we shut down...
One of my friends Anand Gopalan recommended that I read David Epstein’s Range. This book was also recommended by Bill Gates on his blog. It starts with comparing Tiger Woods and Roger Federer. Tiger Woods was trained by his father to be a golfer...
From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew, the Founding Father and former Prime Minister of Singapore is a story of how Singapore was built and became an economic powerhouse. Not only do you learn about Singapore, but you also learn about the...
A vast majority of women want to work and they do not want to sit idle at home. Sheryl Sandberg in her book Lean In says that men and women working in a household leads to healthier and happier families. While women working is great, we do not want...
The Ten Roads to Riches is a simple and interesting book written by Ken Fisher, Founder of Fisher Investments. When I got my hands on the book, I was looking for investment advice and assumed that the book would be talking a lot about S&P 500...
How to avoid a Climate Disaster, a book by Bill Gates starts with an introduction where Bill talks about the number of carbon emissions we create every year. It is 51 Billion tonnes of carbon emission every year and we need to bring it down to zero...
With the elections in Tamil Nadu over yesterday (Tuesday, April 6, 2021), various opinion polls are predicting the victory of one party or the other. As the state looks forward to a dynamic cabinet ministry, the results will be announced on Sunday...
When the Government of India announced lockdown starting March 23, 2020, little did we know that most of the businesses will be closed and schools shut for extended periods. With schools being closed and a surge in online classes, the educated...
We’ve all heard “Don’t work for money, make money work for you”. Though working for money or not can be subjective, making money work for you is never debatable. The power of compound interest, meaning earning interest on...
I was fascinated reading about Thangarasu Natarajan, Blue Jersey Indian Cricketer who returned from the Border Gavaskar series win from Australia and received a rousing reception at his village Chinnappampatti in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. I also...