by Aseem Gupta | Dec 27, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Robert Greene’s The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature, first published by Viking in 2021, condenses the ideas of his earlier books into a year of daily readings. Drawing on historical examples, psychological...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 21, 2024 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
When the Department of Government Efficiency was announced in November 2024, it arrived with a number large enough to transform the United States government: $2 trillion. Elon Musk argued that a team of outsiders could identify waste, eliminate unnecessary programs,...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 20, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading about Stoicism is relatively easy. Applying its principles when someone insults you, a plan falls apart, or an important decision provokes anxiety is considerably harder. The ancient Stoics understood this distinction. They regarded philosophy as something to...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 13, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, is a yearlong introduction to Stoic philosophy organized around one short meditation for every day of the calendar. Published by Portfolio in 2016,...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 7, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
In December 1989, Japan looked like the country that had solved the future. Its companies dominated automobiles, consumer electronics, cameras, semiconductors, machine tools and precision manufacturing. American executives studied Japanese management methods with a...
