by Aseem Gupta | Feb 27, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Neil Strauss’s The Truth begins where the apparent success story of his earlier book The Game starts to collapse. In that book, Strauss transformed himself from an insecure writer into “Style,” a celebrated figure in the pickup-artist world who learned how to attract...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 24, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Ayn Rand’s Anthem begins with a grammatical impossibility. Its narrator speaks about himself as “we,” not because several people are writing together but because the society in which he lives has eliminated the language of individual identity. People have numbers...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 23, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Little Prince is so widely quoted that it is easy to encounter its ideas without ever encountering the book that gives those ideas meaning. Images of roses, stars, foxes, and invisible essentials have escaped the novella and entered popular culture, where they...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 21, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day looks, at first glance, like an early time-management manual. Its title suggests schedules, efficiency, perhaps even a century-old version of the modern productivity system. Bennett does offer a schedule, but productivity...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 20, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Leaving employment does not merely change where someone works. It removes an operating system. A conventional job normally supplies working hours, priorities, deadlines, supervision and a relatively predictable relationship between effort and compensation. Even an...
