“Personal stories are about moving from place to place, and these places can be internal as well as out there in the world.” This is the first book that has made the jump from Pinterest to my TBR and finally to actually being read and if books could receive congratulations, I’d give it one. I… Read More Book Review: Field Notes from the Edge by Paul Evans
This is probably the longest book from the MBA reading list that I’ve read, but it’s also a book that I’ve heard a lot of good things about. So let’s dive into the review! Thinking Fast and Slow is a very long book about how we think. To make things easier, Kahneman refers to our… Read More Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The last time I read a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (it was Fooled by Randomness, if you were wondering), it was because a teacher recommended it. This time, I read Skin in the Game because it was on my MBA’s summer reading list. I don’t know about you, but I sense a pattern forming.… Read More Book Review: Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Time to review another book on my MBA summer reading list! I studied a bit about IoT during my undergraduate days, so this book on artificial intelligence (AI) sounded very interesting. Competing in the Age of AI is based on one premise: that “AI is becoming the universal engine of execution” and as such is… Read More Book Review: Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti and Karim R Lakhani
I’ve had this book on my TBR list for almost a year, ever since I saw Norwich Linguist’s review of it. And even though I enjoyed Confronting the Classics by Beard, I held off reading this because the topic just hit too close to home. Women and Power is a collection of two lectures given… Read More Book Review: Women and Power by Mary Beard
So I don’t think I’ll finish my entire summer reading list before my course starts, but I’d have finish about half of it now that I’ve also read The New Climate War. In The New Climate War, climatologist and geophysicist Michael E. Mann draws on his years of experience in the field to talk about… Read More Book Review: The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann
Here’s another book that was on my summer reading list! Bedtime Stories for Managers isn’t a title you’d expect from a management book, so I was pretty curious about this one. First up: this book isn’t exactly a collection of stories. I was imagining this to be satirical fairytales but this is more like approachable… Read More Book Review: Bedtime Stories for Managers by Henry Mintzberg
I found this book when it was highlighted by the Public Libraries SG’s Instagram account and as someone who feels awkward a lot, I thought it was something that I should read. Written by Ty Tashiro, a self-confessed awkward person, Awkward the book breaks down the issue of awkwardness into three aspects: What is awkwardness?… Read More Book Review: Awkward by Ty Tashiro
Warren recommended this book to me and in his recommendation, said the book was “very disquieting”, which for me means that I’ll have to read it sooner or later. I first heard of the Elisa Lam case through the elevator game (The Ghost in My Machine did an excellent write up of the history of… Read More Book Review: Gone at Midnight by Jake Anderson
Since there’s some time before I start my MBA, my school sent over an optional reading list. And although the list is optional, you all know that I like to read so I was eagerly scanned through the list and decided to start by reading Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. Option B… Read More Book Review: Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant