Abhijit Bhaduri’s Blog
I write about careers, skills and the world of work. The cartoons and sketches are mine.
Book Review: Zero To One
Thiel has strong opinions on everything – even how you should dress (hint: don’t wear suits ever!). He is a contrarian and is unafraid of offending you by challenging your world view.The book certainly inspired me to abandon incremental thinking. This book should be read by everyone who wants to be an entrepreneur. You cannot think short term. Thiel may know a thing or two about success. The PayPal core team members went on to start Yammer, LinkedIn, YouTube and Yelp. In that sense the book will become a handbook that entrepreneurs will read in order to really ask whether their idea really is going to be a “Zero to One” idea just like this book.
Book Review: Creative Confidence
Successful innovations arise out of a blend of three drivers. People must find it desirable, business must find it viable to produce and distribute it using their business model and be profitable and the technology used must make the idea feasible. Since the business and technical factors are taught, the book starts by looking at the “people factors” and how to understand the motivations and core beliefs that drive behaviors.
Special 26
Special 26 is based loosely on a high profile heist, carried out at the Opera House branch of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri jewellery store in Mumbai, when on March 19, 1987, 26 men posing as income tax officials raided the shop and walked away with jewellery worth lakhs.
The Charm of Raga Jaunpuri
Jaunpur was an independent Sultanat in the 15th century which had a reputation of being a city dedicated to learning (ilm ka shahar). It was considered second only to Varanasi as a hub of music and musicians. Jaunpur’s sultans used to be ‘wazirs’ to the Tughlaq dynasty, but then they broke away and created their own. The late morning raga, Jaunpuri traces its origin to Jaunpur.
