Outlive by Peter Attia

2024-04-20 3 min read Sincheenz

This is a book on longevity. It explains how we can maintain fitness and health well into our 80s,90s and even later. The book focuses on tactics for prevention over cure, suggesting that conventional medicine, or Med 2.0, is less effective as it addresses diseases only after they’ve manifested, often after years of development. Therefore, the author advices focussing our attention and treatments on prevention, which he elaborates on and refers to as Med 3. Continue reading

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Design for a Better World by Don Norman

2024-04-12 2 min read Sincheenz

It is hard to write a book that tries to inform people to change, to move away from the convenience of wastage and being environmentally unfriendly. A great attempt, albeit very tiring to read. It’s as if he just got up one day and decided to actually listen to the fuss being made about climate change, waste production, and more. Then it dawned upon him that it is making sense, and he should actually join in and say something about it too. Continue reading

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Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

2024-03-07 2 min read Sincheenz

I expected the book to describe the strategies of outliers – persons with qualities or abilities that set them apart from others. Much to my surprise and delight, the book approaches the concept of being an outlier differently. Malcolm Gladwell discusses the external factors and circumstances that lead an individual to become an outlier and how success is a result of a combination of individual effort, external opportunity, cultural factors and timing. Continue reading

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Brief Answers to Big Questions by Stephen Hawkings

2024-03-04 1 min read Sincheenz

The 10 questions addressed here include Is there a God? How it all began? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? I was skeptical about this book. I wasn’t sure if I would grasp everything about cosmology, quantum physics, black holes, and string theory. Continue reading

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Grit by Angela Duckworth

2024-02-03 2 min read Sincheenz

The book is divided into 2 parts. In the first part, the author explains how excellence and genius can be achieved through Grit. How we as a society are so obsessed with the naturals and geniuses with high IQs, and we give too little importance to the efforts put into achieving excellence. What good is talent when you don’t put it to use, and yet when we hear of naturals, we get excited? Continue reading

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