Archive for the 'Books' Category

New Discoveries in Cancer Research

A couple of days ago I got my hands on this book, Biology of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg and as weird as this may sounds, I couldn’t put it down!
Science and Nature thought it was good too:
The Biology of Cancer is no doubt the definitive statement on its topic today. -Science, 11 August 2006: [...]

Raise Your Hand if You’re a Hard-On-Yourself Perfectionist Overachiever…

For me, this was one of the most moving moments in TED2009. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the bestseller Eat Pray Love muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius.
If your hand [...]

Business Book Summaries

Soundview is a great site I use for summaries of mostly business books. They offer highly professional and intelligent 8 page summaries of new books every months. I use these summaries to decide if the full book is worth a read and then keep the summary with the book for quick reference.
The summaries come in [...]

Taking the Air Out of the “First Mover Advantage” Bubble

There are very few panels, forums or boards, where investors evaluate ventures, that the notion of “First Mover Advantage” isn’t raised. In many cases, it is regarded with such awe, that the mere hint of another player “moving” first, may kill the chance of the venture to be financed.
Deadly Crash on the TTM (Time To [...]

Some people believe in coincidences. I’m not one of them.

“I always wondered…
when a butterfly leaves the safety of it’s cocoon,
does it realize how beautiful I has become,
or does it still just see itself as a caterpillar?”
This is the opening monologue of a brilliant movie I saw last night, The Air I Breathe. It’s based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into [...]