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Learning Curve 2021: Some of the most helpful books, articles, podcasts, videos I came across

2021 was the year we were supposed to recover from the pandemic-ridden 2020, and I think the world generally did that. To my greatest delight people used the word ‘unprecedented’ less and for me, it was my first full year working as a Journalist–I spoke about that here. As I have done in the past […]

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Learning Curve: 2017

Photo Credit: Janko Ferlič  Boro ( Bor- raw) says I read only motivational books I don’t agree with that. I struggle with reading novels which she excels at because I’d rather just watch a movie, it’s all story telling except that novels help improve your imagination and blah blah I hope to read at least a […]

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Book Review: Good to Great

When Emmanuel Osho recommended Good to Great, I was a bit skeptical about reading it because it was published in 2001 and one of the many things about books is that they tend to be outdated but since he was quite persistent I said why not. The book has about 7 chapters of principles which […]

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Epub is Beautiful Too

It started with a tweet, I had just sent an e-book to someone and I got the usual anticipated it’s not opening feedback so I had to give the usual it’s a different format speech, urging the person to get an app that can open the document if it wasn’t an Apple device. It just […]

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The Effort is Enough

This article is an excerpt from Ego is the Enemy There was an unusual encounter between Alexander the Great and the famous Cynic philosopher Diogenes. Allegedly, Alexander approached Diogenes, who was lying down, enjoying the summer air, and stood over him and asked what he, the most powerful man in the world, might be able to […]