Category: Ideas

Ideas

The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue wasn’t a goal in and of itself, but rather a route to a life well lived. By being honest and generous, embodying diligence and fortitude, showing restraint and kindness, a person would flourish – coming to live a life filled with meaning and finding an enduring, as opposed to ephemeral, happiness. Today, that view hasn’t much changed. While we hear plenty of stories of celebrities, politicians and even our neighbours finding fleeting pleasure through self-gratification, dishonesty or hubris, we can also see the ‘other shoe’ eventually drop, leading to despair, social rejection or worse. If […]

Ideas, Personal Growth, Strategy

Book Review – Indistractable by Nir Eyal

Overview: I got a digital preview copy of this book via NetGalley. This book is all about how to handle distractions that are hurled at us from all directions. What is the book about: In his previous book – Hooked, Nir shared the framework that could be used to build habit forming products and in this book he shares strategies for consumers to avoid getting sucked into the habit forming products that were built using the framework he shared in his previous work 🙂 He is candid in sharing that he found himself constantly distracted by all the things that […]

Ideas, transformation

Book Review – The Disruption Mindset by Charlene Li

Overview: I got a digital preview copy of this book via NetGalley. The book is about is basically about what do organizations (typically incumbent organizations) do to be successful at the business of disruption, the assumption being that it is unusual for the incumbents to disrupt themselves or their industries. You can find more information about Charlene here and buy the book here. What is the book about: Charlene gleams some key insights from some case studies of incumbent organizations, which either lost their way or got disrupted found their way to disrupt themselves and in some cases their industries. […]

Ideas

Book Review – Master of One by Jordan Raynor

  Overview: I got a preview copy of the book via NetGalley and had downloaded this a while back but got around to reading this now. Some caveats upfront – I am not a Christian. This book was seemingly written predominantly for a Christian audience. That said, I am not averse to reading books about Christianity and to be honest like it when an author quotes an interesting scripture. It tends to make complex subject simple in a quick and easy way. So, I didn’t mind reading a book full of scriptures. What is the book about: This book is […]

Ideas, Misc, Personal Growth

Book Review – Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Perez

Overview: I bought this book on Audible after listening to the author talk to Roman Mars on his podcast – 99% Invisible) and listened to the audio book, which the author has read herself. The book is primarily about three things: Design Data and Women The entire book is about how designers have ignored the role that gender plays in designing their products or services and how by not collecting data about how the design interacts with half the world’s population, we are blind-sighted of the huge implications of ignoring this demographic from our design research. Ease of reading: The […]