by Aseem Gupta | Jan 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George Horace Lorimer’s Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son looks at first like a collection of business maxims from an opinionated father to a privileged young man. It is more interesting than that description suggests. Across twenty letters, Chicago...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 17, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Most books about thinking promise techniques for becoming smarter, more creative, or more productive. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking begins from a more useful premise: the quality of thought depends less on occasional flashes of brilliance than on habits that...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 14, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Nicholas Boothman’s How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less has the kind of title that invites two opposite reactions. One is hopeful: perhaps there really is a learnable way to become more comfortable with strangers, create rapport quickly, and stop leaving...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 12, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Inazo Nitobe’s Bushido: The Soul of Japan is one of the most influential attempts ever made to explain the moral ideals associated with Japan’s samurai to an English-speaking audience. First published in Philadelphia in 1900—the early edition carries an...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 8, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales can look deceptively simple from a distance: a group of pilgrims travel from London toward Canterbury and entertain themselves by telling stories along the road. What survives, however, is far stranger and more ambitious...
