by Aseem Gupta | Jan 25, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 2010, in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism arrived at a moment when ideas that had been treated as economic common sense suddenly looked much less secure. The crisis had...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 20, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Cal Newport’s How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students was published in 2005, years before Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You made him widely known for writing about concentration, career development, and the...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 9, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer, published in 2015, begins with a familiar legal-thriller proposition and then steadily complicates it. Sebastian Rudd is a criminal-defense lawyer who represents people other attorneys do not want: defendants already condemned by public...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 1, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Caffeine is one of the world’s most familiar psychoactive substances, yet most people rarely experience it as a drug. Coffee marks the beginning of the working day, tea accompanies conversation, cola is sold as refreshment, and the workplace coffee break is so...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 18, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Will is a celebrity memoir in which celebrity gradually becomes the least interesting part of the story. Published by Penguin Press in 2021 and written by Will Smith with Mark Manson, the book follows Smith from a frightened childhood in West Philadelphia through...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 5, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Neil Strauss’s Rules of the Game is easiest to misunderstand if it is treated either as a simple sequel to The Game or as nothing more than a collection of pickup techniques. Strauss’s earlier account of becoming “Style” in The Game explains how he entered the...
