Aug
26
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
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Gang Leader for a Day: a rogue sociologist crosses the line by Sudhir Venkatesh recommended itself to me becuase Mr Venkatesh is the man behind the “why do drug dealers live with their Moms?” of Freakonomics fame. To cut a long story short, Venkatesh was studying at university in Chicago and wandered into one of [...]
Aug
18
Tribes by Seth Godin
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I bought this book after enjoying reading Seth Godin‘s blog. I wanted to understand his daily insights in greater detail. The book itself was a bit disappointing. It was coherent, for what it was, but was poorly structured and read like a series of blogposts put together into an evangelistic speech / pitch for more [...]
Aug
17
I’ve just come back from two weeks in France in which I kept active by running and reading every day. In order to remember some of the things that I read, and help others enjoy some of the best books, I wanted to do a short synopsis of each of the books that I read [...]