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Peter Theil, a technocrat, figures as one of the lead mentors in Silicon Valley for entrepreneurship. He has also taught at Stanford. Zero  to One :  Notes on start-ups or how to build the future is a book which he has written along with Blake Masters, published by Penguin Random House in 2014.  The book is presented in 14 chapters ranging from compilation of experiences on start-up , culture , entrepreneurship and business world, has a cult following. in this book, he tried to work on some of the concepts for new age business world and suggested new age founders. He writes that this book is about how to build companies that create new things. Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting fundamental capabilities to a higher level. He explains why it is easier to start a new technology in start-ups as he says it’s hard to develop new things in big organisations, and it’s even harder to do it by yourself. Bureaucratic hierarchy is more s...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a known name amongst the academics and practitioners alike. He is a Bond in the field who has written multi-book series Incerto which means uncertainity in Latin. So in the series he talks about the uncertainity as it plays out in our daily life. This book is one of the constituent in likes of The Black Swan, AntiFragile, Fooled by Randomness amongst others. The book is published by Penguin Randomhouse, UK in 2018.  The book is divided into 19 chapters. The basic premise of the book is to explain that whatever person gives advice he should have a skin in the game which roughly translates to that a person should not advise when he has nothing to lose about an investment and advisor should not advise if he have nothing to lose about. As he writes in the introduction that Skin in the Game is about four topics in one. Firstly it is about uncertainity and reliability of knowledge , secondly, symmetry in human affairs like justice, fairness, responsibility ...

THE GOLDEN ROAD :  HOW ANCIENT INDIA TRANSFORMED THE WORLD WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, BLOOMSBURY, 2024 William Dalrymple does not need an introduction. Every reader has heard his name even if he hasn't read his works. His readership spreads from serious history researchers to casual history enthusiasts, from serious UPSC Civil services aspirants of History optionals to general studies specific students, from Indians interested in their cultural revivals to global readers interested in South-East Asia and especially India.  Recently, I have read his "The Golden Road" published by Bloomsbury which is about India's golden era where the dominance extended from Central Asia to China to South East Asia. The extent of influence was such that the entire cities were built on the patterns as in Bharatvarsh and Kings ruling in the name of Hindu dieties what he broadly terms as Indosphere. The book is presented in 10 chapters revolving around the common theme of Indic influence transcend...