June 2018 Reading List

Lately, I have been doing a lot of reading and have come across some awesome articles, blogs and books. I have been bookmarking a lot of them and then I usually forgot to read some of those. Taking inspiration from some of the pioneers (Bill Gates), I am thinking of experimenting with publishing my own reading list and will be summarizing the most important points of the article.

I have dual motivation to do that. With my increasingly busy schedule and the amount of new content being generated everyday, there is no time to revisit the content I have already read. Having a summary of articles would help me revisit them faster and will help me reference them later, if needed. Along with the article itself, I sometimes read some more content around the topic to bring myself up to speed and also verify the facts and figures. This way I can put all the content and knowledge in one place and won't be losing the research I did along the way. Secondly, it will give me enough content for my blog, so I get to keep experimenting with my writing :)

I am not sure how this approach will turn out and how much time it will end up taking, but I am going to give a try for the next couple of months and will keep everyone updated about the stats.

• The Psychology of Money
• Will be summarizing it over the next few days. 

• Entrepreneur Magazine (June 2018)
• Expand your boundaries and prepare for your next job. Seek out opportunities. It will help u grow and do things you might not have done otherwise.
• Why it's brilliant?
• Marketing
• It's all about timing
• wrt to events happening around, relating to viral content etc.
• Stand out of the crowd
• Horror ice cream ad
• Misspelled ad in Oxford American magazine
• IKEA ad treated with pregnancy-kit technology: "Peeing on this ad may change your life", revealing discount on crib!
• Growth Strategy
• Listen and incorporate feedback
• crowd-sourced R&D
• Airbnb recategorized listings
• Adopt technology, while addressing problems
• Domino's self driving pizza delivery
• Starbucks digital menus - promote items at certain times and dynamic pricing
• Product Innovation and Services
• L'Oreal UV sense
• 8k Flexwarm
• Nike Pro Hijab (inclusion at its best!)
• Engineer.AI
• Castbox
• Root insurance
• Getting Eighty-Sixed (kicked-out): How a common slang come into origin!
• Reasons NASA projects miss deadlines
• Wrong incentives
• Will keep getting funding even if the deadlines are missed
• Approved project becomes "too big to fail" and thus challenges are downplayed
• Funding Instability
• Developing and retaining experienced project managers
• Make sure to secure your databases
• Yakhchal: Ancient refrigeration, around 400 BC 😳
• I am getting a GoCube! Yay!