by Aseem Gupta | Jun 29, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 34 MinutesOn June 17, 2004, Cory Doctorow walked into Microsoft’s Redmond offices to argue that one of the technology industry’s major investments was fundamentally misguided. Microsoft and other companies were spending heavily on digital rights...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 19, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 34 MinutesOn February 3, 1863, Cassius Marcellus Clay addressed the Law Department of the University of Albany at one of the most consequential moments of the American Civil War. The final Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect only a month earlier,...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 9, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 38 MinutesStuart Wilde’s Silent Power begins like a book about confidence and self-possession. Its early advice is easy to recognize: stop craving other people’s approval, talk less, listen more, control emotional reactions, avoid desperate striving,...