books
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
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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Friday, September 3, 2021
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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Monday, August 30, 2021
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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