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Book Summaries

February 11, 2015 · 3 min

Book summaries of some of the best books that I have read

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Summary: Breakneck - China's Quest To Engineer The Future

Book summary: How to Teach Your Baby to Read

The Discontented Little Baby Book — Book Summary: The Discontented Little Baby Book

Book summary: The Natural Baby Sleep Solution

One up on Wall Street — Book Summary: One up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch

Sick Societies — Book summary: Sick Societies by Robert B. Edgerton

Safe Haven — Book Summary: Safe Haven by Mark Spitznagel

Notable quotes from "How to Live" by Derek Sivers

What I learned losing a million dollars by Jim Paul — Book Summary: What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke — Book Summary: Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke

Half-life of Facts — Book Summary: The half-life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit man — Book summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick — Book Summary: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

Staff Engineer by Will Larson — Book Summary: Staff Engineer by Will Larson

Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy — Book Summary: Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy

Selected quotes from "How I Invest My Money" by Joshua Brown

A book cover featuring a black and white image of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister — Book Summary: One Man's View of the World by Lee Kuan Yew

Book summary of Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives

Book summary - Magicians of the God by Graham Hancock

bed-of-procrustes — The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A philosophy of software design by John K Ousterhout — Book Summary: A Philosophy of Software Design

Red Notice — Book Summary: Red Notice by Bill Browder

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel — Book summary: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Book cover of "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Book summary: Antifragile by Nassim Nicolas Taleb

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Everybody Lies — Book Summary - Everybody Lies

Fooled by Randomness — Book Summary: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicolas Taleb

how not to die cover — Book Summary: How not to die by Dr. Michael Greger

Why Nations Fail — Book summary: Why Nations Fail

Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath — Book summary: Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Skin in the game — Book summary: Skin in the game by Nassim Nicolas Taleb

How not to be wrong — Book summary: How not to be wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Manson — Book summary: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Random? or not? — Book summary: Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind — Book Summary: Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind

Brandwashed — Book summary: Brandwashed by Martin Lindstorm

Business Adventures" by John Brooks — Book summary: "Business Adventures" by John Brooks

Where good ideas come from — Book summary: "Where good ideas come from" by Steven Johnson

What got you here won't get you there by Marshall Goldsmith

Hard Things about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz — Book Summary: Hard Things about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries — Book summary: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Remote - office not required — Book summary: Remote - office not required

Great By Choice by Jim Collins — Book summary: Great By Choice by Jim Collins

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham — Book Summary: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

The science of happily ever after by T Y Tashiro — Book summary: The Science of Happily Ever After

Bogleheads guide to investing — Book summary: Bogleheads guide to investing

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Cialdini

Think like a freak — Book Summary: Think Like a Freak by Levitt & Dubner

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch — Book summary: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Only The Paranoid Survives — Book summary: Only The Paranoid Survives by Andrew Grove

So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport — Book Summary: So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport

The Innovator's Dilemma — Book Summary: The Innovator's Dilemma

The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg — Book summary: The Education of Millionaires

How to create a mind — Book summary: How to create a mind by Ray Kurzweil

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big — How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams

Art of War by Sun Tzu — Book Summary: Art of War by Sun Tzu

The score takes care of itself — Book Summary: The score takes care of itself

Man's search for meaning — Book Summary: Man's search for meaning

Winners Take All - The 9 fundamental rules of high tech strategy — Winners Take All - 9 fundamental rules of high tech strategy

The Power of Less — Book Summary: The Power of Less by Leo Babuta

The Start-Up of You — Book Summary: The Start-Up of You

Breakout Nations — Book Summary: Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma

The Tangled Web — Book Review: The Tangled web

Steve Jobs — Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

In the Plex by Steven Levy — Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy

Imagining India — Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Built to Last (Successful habit of visionary companies) — Book summary: Built to Last by Collins & Porras

India Unbound by Gurcharan Das — Book summary: India Unbound by Gurcharan Das

Difficulty of being good: Subtle art of Dharma — Summary: "Difficulty of being good: Subtle art of Dharma"