Archive for October 2009
Collapse – How Societies chose to fail or survive
A brilliant book – relevant as ever.
Interweaving of anthropological knowledge with current challenges involving social behaviour, climate threats, economic collapses – connecting the dots could not be more magnificent.
Ignore Everybody and 39 other Keys to creativity by Hugh Macleod
The hugely insightful and enthralling book about creative choices whether it be career, life or passion after Dan Pink’s The Adventures of JohnyBunko. Both are one of its kind. Johny Bunko with it comic book story telling. Ignore Everybody with its business card size cartoons. Each of 39 keys are worth pondering about and set you on a journey of thoughts. However me being the insatiable book-eater, I could not stop till I finished and was wondering all the while how my friend Aditya would read it one chapter a day and keep the fire burning for 40 days.
Thanks to Seth Godin for having recommended this book on his blog.
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense – The inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence G. Macdonald
Amazing story telling by Larry. This is a personal account of a talented insider who worked the floors of Lehman, made fortunes and was fired during early 2008, as he belonged to bear culture while Lehman Management was bullish . Can be read or heard like a breeze, a bit melodramatic, but clearly engaging and informative
People Watching by Desmond Morris
This is an indepth study into the natures of human behaviour and possible reasons along the lines of antropology and evolution for those behaviours. One of those books which calls for multiple reading for if you start all over again, be sure to find a lot of new meanings and revelations you missed the first time.
