Category Archives: Book Reviews

Concerned about what you will leave behind you when you die is an inescapable element of the human condition. What sort of legacy will you leave? How will you be remembered? How do you ensure that your loved ones are provided for, not only to profit from your success but to actually learn from it?Continue reading “Leaving your best legacy”

Over the last decade or so, the subscription-based business model has transformed existing industries and created new types of services. From Netflix and WhatsApp to Dollar Shave Club and Man Crates, subscriptions are everywhere. In The Automatic Customer, consultant and entrepreneur, John Warrillow, lays out the growth of the subscription-based model and how to leverageContinue reading “The principles of subscriptions”

Personal finance can be very overwhelming and fraught with emotion. We all have a sense of the critical role that wealth plays in helping us achieve our goals, but what is the best way to actually go about making money in the first place? In The Simple Path to Wealth, JL Collins cuts through theContinue reading “Making money easy”

The paradigm of Man vs. Machine is an extremely common trope in pop culture over the last fifty years. From Skynet to the Matrix, we seem all too eager to imagine an apocalyptic future where steel-hearted robots make humanity obsolete. Some would say, we’re already well on our way to such a scenario. In HumanContinue reading “AI and the future of the workplace”

We live in an Age of Acceleration. At least that’s what New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, calls it in his 2016 book, Thank You for Being Late. The world is becoming ever more connected and events occur on a global scale with ever increasing rapidity. How can we stay grounded in such an overwhelminglyContinue reading “Adapting to an accelerating world”

First published in 1997, The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen is a classic, widely considered one of the best books on management. Why do companies, even successful and well-managed ones, fail? How to distinguish between passing fads and the next big thing? How do you balance sustaining the business you already have while also takingContinue reading “Innovation and disruption”

The last two decades have seen the rise of a new kind of business. Massive firms like Google, Apple, and Facebook do not just influence what products we buy. They are able to actually condition the spaces in which we think and live. This is accomplished through platforms. In Platform Revolution, Geoffrey Parker, Marshall VanContinue reading “Platforms: Doing business in a hyperlinked world”

What is happiness? This perennial question has seemed even more relevant in recent years as so much of what we thought we knew has been upended. Is it money, fame, a loving family? What can provide longterm satisfaction and contentment. In NeuroWisdom, Mark Robert Waldman gives an answer grounded in an intriguing blend of hardContinue reading “Meditation and the science of happiness”

Conventional wisdom tends to be highly individualistic as opposed to collaborative. We are taught to value cooperation and teamwork, but on deeper level most people are conditioned to believe that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. In Who Not How, Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy show the power ofContinue reading “It’s who you know, not how you know”