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Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture is such a heartwarming book that I plan to raise my kid(s) (when I have them) using its values and beliefs.
Pick up this book, will you?
For those of you who do not know, Prof. Randy Pausch passed away early in the morning on July 25, 2008, at his home in [...]

I resisted reading The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma for a long time because I thought the title was gimmicky. I realized that I was being closed to new ideas by literally judging a book by its cover and title so I picked up the book. I’m glad that I read it [...]

Made To Stick

Made To Stick. This book has been touted as this year’s “Freakanomics” and a supplement to Malcolm Gladwell’s classic “Tipping Point” but not without good reason judging by the DVD presentation I watched. I haven’t yet got my hands on it but I surely will soon. In the meantime, here’s a link to a podcast [...]

Getting Real from 37Signals

I really enjoyed the online book, Getting Real which is a collection of 90 odd essays on getting rid of the fluff and coming up with a lean and mean web application. However, the principles found in this book can be used in any aspect of our lives to make it real and simpler.

The authors of How Full Is Your Bucket have impressive credentials and are a grandfather and grandson team of Donald O Clifton and Tom Rath. Don is recognised as the “Father of Strengths Psychology” and “Grandfather of Positive Psychology” and has co-authored the best-selling “Now, Discover Your Strengths” with Marcus Buckingham. This is his very [...]

Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind has an interesting view on globalisation where he argues that the world is moving from the Informational Age to the Conceptual Age. Abundance, Asia and Automation are identified as three forces that are changing the future.