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The idea of this page is to keep a note of my projects and progress. I will also add blogs and books which I am reading or I support/ponder about.

Few books which I read in 2021 :

  • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov (February 2021)
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (February 2021)
  • Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (March 2021)
  • Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey Smith (April 2021)
  • The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochari (May 2021)
  • Hell is the Absence of God by Tedd Chiang (August 2021)
  • The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson (July 2021)
  • Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
  • Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
  • Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (October 2021)
  • Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov (November 2021)
  • Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (December 2021)

Few books which I read in 2020 :

  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
  • Desire by Haruki Murakami (Jan 2020)
  • Big Billion Startup : The Untold Flipkart Story by Mihir Dalal (February 2020)
  • Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel De Unamuno
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Obviously Awesome by April Dunford (April 2020)
  • Mrityunjay (Hindi) by Shivaji Sawant
  • Vayam Raksham (Hindi) by Acharya Chatursen
  • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan (August 2020)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (September 2020)
  • Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
  • Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig
  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
  • Play Bigger by Al Ramadan

Few books which I read in 2019 :

  • The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman (Dec 2019)
  • Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount (Nov 2019)
  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (Oct 2019)
  • The Road to Serfdom by FA Hayek (Sept 2019)
  • Loonshots by Safi Bahcall (Aug 2019)
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Aug 2019)
  • Ignore Everybody by Hugh Macleod (April 2019)
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins (Mar 2019)
  • Metaphors we live by - By George Lakoff (Mar 2019)
  • Measure What Matters by John Doerr (Feb 2019)
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Jan 2019)
  • The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky (Jan 2019)
  • Hacking Growth by Brian Morgan (Jan 2019)
  • Fatal Conceit by FA Hayek
  • Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross
  • My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla

Few books which I read in 2018 :

  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Jan 2018) - My Notes
  • Skin in the Game by NN Taleb
  • Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (Mar 2018)
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (April 2018) - My Notes
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (May 2018) - My Notes
  • The Essential Philosophical Works by David Hume
  • Grit by Angela Duckworth
  • Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (May 2018)
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin (June 2018)
  • Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (July 2018)
  • Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (Aug 2018)
  • American Kingpin by Nick Bilton (Sept 2018)
  • Underground by Suelette Dreyfus/Julian Assange (Sept 2018)
  • Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink/Leif Babin
  • Leading by Alex Ferguson
  • High Output Management by Andrew Grove
  • Karma - The riddle of Desire by Gurcharan Das
  • Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky (Dec 2018)
  • On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky (Nov 2018)
  • An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (Nov 2018)
  • Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (Oct 2018)
  • Permutation City by Greg Egan (Oct 2018)
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser (Oct 2018)

Books I read in 2017

  • Manโ€™s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • The Vital Question by Nick Lane (Read only halfway, too much details on biochem)
  • The Upstarts by Brad Stone
  • Delivery Happiness by Tony Hsieh
  • Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
  • Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • Capitalism by Ayn Rand (Reading)
  • The Brain by David Eagleman
  • Antifragile by NN Taleb
  • Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
  • Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (Reading)
  • Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  • Anathem by Neal Stephenson
  • Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian (Reading)
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Awaken the Giant by Anthony Robbins (Reading)
  • The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (Reading)
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrick Nietzsche
  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

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