Books
Books I've read and what they left me with.
- 2025
The Score Takes Care of Itself
PersonalBill Walsh on leadership and the Standard of Performance. Build the process and the results follow.
- 2024
Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0
TechnicalTech book. Read and took notes up to Chapter 6.
- 2024
The Trusted Advisor
Personal - 2022
Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
PersonalTaught me how companies can succeed by caring for their employees, customers, and communities, not just by focusing on profits.
Marc Benioff shares how ethical practices, innovation, philanthropy (the 1:1:1 principle), and strong leadership can drive both business growth and positive change in society.
- 2022
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
PersonalMade me realize how incredibly strong and resilient people can be. It left me far more thankful for my own life.
- 2022
Awareness
PersonalA transformative read. It made me reconsider certain things about religion and the meaning of spirituality, and helped me realize a lot personally.
- 2022
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
PersonalTaught the importance of accepting our limitations, choosing our values wisely, and caring less about unimportant things.
It also made me feel like the majority of productivity books directly or indirectly mean the same set of ideas.
- 2022
A Man Called Ove
PersonalA sweet story about a regular guy who seems grumpy but is deeply kind and caring. It shows how important it is to stay close to others. Even when we lose someone we love, we can find love again in new and unexpected ways.
I also watched the movie based on it just a few months after reading.
- 2022
Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem
TechnicalTech book. Find my notes on GitHub.
- 2015
How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company
PersonalMy first completed book. During my 5th semester of undergrad, I made the most of my time on the school bus reading it.