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I knew Steven Bartlett through his celebrated podcast, The Diary of a CEO . I admire his courage to be truthful about his weakness and pridefully own it . Bartlett is a British-Nigerian entrepreneur and a famous podcaster. He is the founder of Thirdweb, Flight Story and Flight Story Fund. His book “The Diary of a CEO” underlines that simple ways are the best and the beys are always simple. The book begins with the idea of mastering the self by filling the five interconnected buckets, i.e. knowledge, skills, network, resources, and reputation. Anyone who starts with acquiring knowledge applies it to developing a set of skills. With this acquired knowledge and skill, one develops valuable relationships and expands the networks, thus enhancing the resources and reputation. By setting the tone, he begins his set of 33 Laws with a holistic approach and precise wisdom, explained crisply in simple language and thus presenting the unique way for mastering the self. Each law is exp

To finish this 550-page book “Thank You for Being Late: an Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations” , I had to become a fan of Thomas Friedman. This is not merely for the sake of finishing the book but also because, as I have completed the book, I can visualise the beauty and the ugly of the world's progress going hand in hand. The book revolves around the theme that technology (Moore’s law ), Market (globalisation) and nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)- the confluence of these three accelerating forces driving human life which are caught in the nebula of supernova (a term given by the writer for the ever-expanding e-world) are transforming the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community.  However, amidst these dizzying accelerations, he requests us to allow ourselves to slow down and be late for pausing to appreciate this extraordinary historical epoch we’re passing through and reflect on its possibilities and dangers. The

The year 2023 ended with Jodi Picoult's nail-biting court drama novel, Small Great Things. This was the second read from the author, and I am highly impressed with the drama, emotion and facts presented dramatically in the book. A black woman, Ruth, with a teenage son, has been a labour and delivery nurse for over 20 years. When a newborn baby of the white supremacist Turk and Brittany Bauer dies, Ruth is held responsible. She is charged with felony crimes, and her fate lies in the hands of the public defender Kennedy McQuarrie, a white woman. And there begins the drama and the saga of the hurricane of emotions.  The ending is dramatic (which I like personally ) This book made me reflect on the self-confidence we generally carry, that we are not prejudiced…, and that we are broad-minded. However, we all have pre-notion regarding several persons, things, places, etc., and our preconceived notions reflect on the surface of our thinking and actions as and when a situation