Finished reading: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger 📚 I picked up this book based on my buddy Bill’s recommendation (pun intended), he calls it one of the rare business books he’d actually recommend. With such high praise I was naturally curious, and boy did I love this book! Part memoir, part business wisdom, Bob Iger (CEO, Walt Disney company 2005–2020) shares his story of growing through the ranks at ABC Network to become an executive, and then joining Disney as COO when ABC was acquired by Disney in mid 1990s.

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Recently read: Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To by David Sinclair 📚 This book was a random pick from the local library. I challenged myself to read a book on a different domain, and it turned out to be great. The premise, that you can increase your lifespan to 150 even 200 years, was mind bending and the book lived up to it. Lifespan talks about latest research from cellular biology about aging and how it can be slowed, heck, even reversed.

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Recently finished: In Order to Live, A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park 📚. This memoir is honest, heart-breaking and hard-hitting. It shows the things we take for granted, say, being able to eat eggs in morning (Park mentions, they’d eat eggs once or twice a year (!!) in N.Korea) to basic human rights and freedom, are far more valuable than we presume. Despite its heavy subject, the book reads like a thriller and oddly, is even funny in places.

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Shenandoah National Park was all cloudy and misty today. Beautiful drive!

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Spotify vs Apple Music UI (circa Fall 2021). I like the Spotify UI better, it looks almost the same but is more functional (for e.g., shuffle/repeat button isn’t hidden away), also the cover image is bigger.

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Trying yet another blogging platform.

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When you hold iPhone X, the first thing you notice, is that it is heavier than it looks. Apple has this trend of not being the first but rather being a good implementer of technologies — they recreated the tablet as iPad, finger print sensor as TouchID, applied NFC as Apple Pay, voice assistant as Siri and recently facial recognition as FaceID. There are many novelties as well, like, being the first to launch a 64 bit processor, arguably building a mobile AppStore (Appstore transformed iPhone the way newsfeed transformed Facebook), and, make phone cameras mainstream.

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I was apprehensive when I bought the Apple Watch 4. Do I really need it? Will it fit comfortably? Can I handle the constant barrage of notifications on my wrist? Is it worth the price? How long will the battery last? Does it really help with fitness? Will it help save battery on my phone? I had just bought the bigger iPhone 7+ (still find it difficult to hold) then and wanted a companion device to check notifications without having to take the big phone out of my pocket every time.

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