by Aseem Gupta | Apr 30, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 49 MinutesThe Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton’s 1969 science fiction novel, begins with a military satellite falling to Earth near a small Arizona town. Within hours, almost everyone in the town is dead. Two people survive, although they have...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 25, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 78 MinutesArthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, published in 1968, is a science fiction novel about humanity’s origins, its encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence, and the possibility that human consciousness may eventually evolve...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 20, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 52 MinutesIn Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, firemen do not extinguish fires. They start them. Their job is to find forbidden books, burn them, and destroy the homes of people who refuse to live without them. Most citizens have stopped questioning...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 18, 2024 | Urban Planning & the Built Environment
Reading Time: 26 MinutesWhen we imagine ancient Rome, familiar images come to mind: stone-paved streets, monumental buildings, crowded marketplaces, public baths, and people going about their daily lives. Ancient India is much harder to picture. Our imagination tends...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 16, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 66 MinutesWhat if the most important skills for building a successful life are the ones nobody teaches you in school? That question drives Build, Don’t Talk: Things You Wish You Were Taught in School, a 2022 self-help and business book by Indian...
