What You Do is What You Are
Author:
Ben Horowitz
Publishing Year:
2019
In this insight, we will learn about eminent personalities of our human history, who excelled in the art of management of an organization and its culture. Culture forms an intangible object of human interaction that guides their behaviour in any g...
The Coddling of the American Mind
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
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Greg Lukianoff
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There is a general conviction that our ancestors had it way rougher than us. With the developments in technology and society, the upcoming generation is becoming more relaxed and finding it easier than the previous generation. This has brought abo...
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Space has always been something that has mesmerized us. Two questions always seem to occupy the human mind- Where did we come from? Where are we going? And everything else lies in between. In the insights, we will know a little more about the cosm...
Blitzscaling
The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Author:
Chris Yeh
Publishing Year:
2018
“Blitzscaling - The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, published in 2018, is regarded as one of the best business books ever written. It explains how start-ups become successful by presenti...
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Author:
Yuval Noah Harari
Publishing Year:
2011
Human beings have lived on this planet for a tiny fraction of time, compared to the age of the Earth. And yet, even within this short span of time, we’ve achieved so much. Yuval Noah Harari, in this stimulating book, explores the various forces th...
Range
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Author:
David Epstein
Publishing Year:
2019
Genre:
Psychology, Generalization
In a world preoccupied with specialization, let us take a look at the second, slightly less conventional route to success-generalization. In this insight we see how specialization is not essential to success, and how it can only be cultivated in c...
Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author:
Yuval Noah Harari
Publishing Year:
2015
Homo Deus is a book written by the Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari. He is a professor at the Hebrew University, which is located in Jerusalem. This book is a successor to Sapiens, and it explains to us the abilities that mankind currently possess...
Atomic Habits
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
Author:
James Clear
Publishing Year:
2018
‘Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones’, written by author James Clear is widely considered to be one of the most realistic and effective self-help books to be written. The author is mostly famous for his abilit...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Author:
Yuval Noah Harari
Publishing Year:
2018
How can the human species survive a nuclear holocaust? Will AI and automated machines take over human activities? Will terrorism or rise of fake news threaten to tear us apart? How should we prepare our coming generations for the challenges of the...
The Third Pillar
How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
Author:
Raghuram Rajan
Publishing Year:
2019
Genre:
Economic Policy