Book Reviews
Book Review: Breakneck – China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” by Dan Wang
I reviewed the fascinating book “Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company” by Patrick McGee. I was amazed by how Apple has built its dependence on China throughout the years and also paid and educated the Chinese technology industry to become a manufacturing giant. If you haven’t read the book, you really…
Read MoreBook Review: Transformed – Moving to the Product Operating Model by Marty Cagan
This is the third Marty Cagan book review. The first review was about the book “Inspired – How to create tech products customers love.” The second book review was about the book “Empowered – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.” The book is personally very interesting to me, as I have had the pleasure of leading over…
Read MoreBook Review: Empowered – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan
I wrote a book review of “Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love” by Marty Cagan, which I believe is one of the foundational books that one should read if building products, especially in tech. I also wanted to bring across the importance of Marty Cagan’s thesis on how to build products that people love.…
Read MoreBook Review: Inspired- How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
We tend to think that AI will solve everything and that we can give AI the role of thinking, and we follow whatever comes from the LLM models. The question we must ask ourselves is this: when creating products, especially digital ones, what skills and understanding should we maintain to ensure that the solutions we…
Read MoreBook Review: Apple in China – The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Sometimes, books are timely, and the book Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGeeis a good example of that. I have always enjoyed reading about the technology market and ecosystems. As an Apple device user with an iPhone, several iPads, and an Apple TV in our different properties, including…
Read MoreBook Review: Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
If you wondered about the history of machine learning and what all is behind it, you would not go wrong by selecting the book by Anil Ananthaswamy. His book is now a bestseller on Amazon, and I do understand why. The book is “Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI.”It offers a rich…
Read MoreBook Review: Agentic Artificial Intelligence-Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work, and Life
Book Review: AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee’s 2018 book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order has proven to be remarkably prescient in light of recent developments in the AI industry, particularly the emergence of the Chinese AI company DeepSeek. Although the book is from 2018, it describes China’s power well when the government decides where the…
Read MoreBook Review: Four Thousand Weeks average lifespan – Are you spending those weeks wisely?
Reviewing Four Thousand Weeks—Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman is appropriate as we are on the brink of changing from 2024 to 2025. This is my 26th book review of the year. I reviewed other books on the same theme this year, such as “Buy Back Your Time” by Dan Martell and also Joshua…
Read MoreBook Review: Software as a Science by Dan Martell et al.
SaaS is not new. One would think that there would be nothing more to uncover. Still, we learn every day from the experiences we face when running a SaaS business or in consulting organizations that offer services to SaaS vendors. I have learned in life that with information overload, core concepts must be repeated regularly…
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