by Aseem Gupta | Aug 31, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Kevin Kruse’s 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management promises access to the habits of unusually productive people: billionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students, entrepreneurs, executives, and other high achievers. Its title makes the book sound...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 28, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few political books are as historically consequential, as frequently invoked, and as poorly understood as Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Written after the failed Beer Hall Putsch and begun during Hitler’s imprisonment at Landsberg in 1924, it combines political...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 24, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Street Lawyer, originally published in 1998, begins with the machinery of a conventional legal thriller: armed violence, frightened lawyers, a mysterious grievance, concealed evidence, and a powerful law firm protecting itself. Yet the novel quickly...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 20, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
David Sedaris’s The Best of Me looks at first like a conventional career retrospective: a successful writer selects favorite pieces from decades of work and gathers them into one volume. Yet the book becomes more revealing than a simple greatest-hits collection...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 16, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Adam Grant’s Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, first published by Viking in 2016, is often described as a book about creativity. That description is incomplete. Grant is less interested in the moment when somebody has an unconventional idea than in...
