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 […]

Ideas

Book Review: 15 Minute Pause: A Radical Reboot for Busy People by Michelle Burke, Lilamani de Silva

Overview: — I got this book as an advance review copy. Michelle and Lilamani have done a great job in writing this as a workbook.. Ease of reading: — The book is written in a very simple to read language. As this is written in the format of a workbook, this is best read over a long period of time, doing the exercises that they suggest, reflect on the questions that they pose and trying out some of the ideas that they suggest. So, this book will not be effective or useful, if you just read through the book. What […]

Ideas

Convenience Trumps Everything Else

Premise: I have realised this truth: Convenience trumps everything else. If you think about it, almost everything that we do, we do because it is convenient, not because it is the right thing to do, not what we say we want to do, but what is convenient to do. We want to eat healthy. But we end up eating fast food or canned food because it is convenient to order something on the supermarket aisle or order a fast food, than going to the market, buying vegetables, cook fresh food and eat it. We want to read or write a […]