What RamP's Reading: Jan'18

My reading speed is picking up and I have set an ambitious goal of reading 60 books this year - 1 book per week gives 52 and the other 8 need to be squeezed during travel. I'm reading 4 books on different themes. Mindset is a book the Satya Nadella frequently refers to in his book Hit Refresh. The authors of the celebrated Blue Ocean Strategy have come up with a follow on titled Blue Ocean Shift and given the current focus in the company and new growth this sounds like a good book to read. Principles by Ray Dalio, one of the tallest hedge fund managers is being referred everywhere and I added it to the list. Turning to Indian wisdom, I added Teachings of Ramana. 

Autobiography in Five Chapters

Ran into this powerful poem by Portia Nelson. Sometimes life can be too much on auto pilot. As we enter the last few days of 2017, it'd be nice to ponder over what this poem means to us.

Softskills Inventory

Lot of questions to ponder this Monday morning (Courtesy: Seth Godin):

What RamP's reading: Dec-17

Reading has slowed down as I learn Python and write some interesting code. This (programming) is another passion that has been suppressed for long and try to resurrect it. Only two books this time, though I expect more time during Christmas break. 

The first one is Satya Nadella's Hit Refresh. Being brought up in the Unix/Linux world during my IC stint of over 10years, I belonged to a cult that hated Microsoft (M$ as we used to call them then - late 1990s when they were fighting too many anti-monopoly lawsuits) and refrained reading anything about Microsoft/Gates. Things have changed and its a good time to understand how M$ is getting transformed. 

Second one is a book recommended by one of my mentor. The book deals with cognitive bias that clouds our thinking. Couldn't gather courage to ask why he reco'd this book, though I have a good guess, go en what the book is about! 

The book contains 99 short chapters that will help in judging the common mistakes made by the people and they learn how to avoid them.Have you ever:

• Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
• Continued doing something you knew was bad for you?
• Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?