Book Club | Sagar Wadhwa

Here, I write about books I have finished and enjoyed reading. Hopefully, it would give you a glimpse of the book and allow you to see if you are interested in reading it, while also keeping me accountable to finish more books rather than leaving them incomplete.

Book of the Month: The Go-Giver

A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Posted on September 29, 2024

“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving… Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.” The quote above captures the central idea of this book called “The Go Giver”. Through a short and sweet story, the... [Read More]

Gap and the Gain

Looking at the Positive Side of Things

Posted on August 24, 2024

In a zoom call with a friend one day, he told me the salary of a lawyer he was working with as part of his job. He said, “If I were making this sort... [Read More]

Fermat's Last Theorem

Posted on June 16, 2024

Recently, I finished reading the book, Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh, and loved it a lot. This is the first book I have completed in a long time, so that felt good. It’s also the first time I have read a book related to mathematics which is not a text... [Read More]

Twelfth Fail

Haara Wohi Jo Lada Nahi

Posted on January 7, 2024

Hope your 2024 is off to a great start. For this post, I wanted to write about a book I recently read and liked a lot, Twelfth Fail by Anurag Pathak. I heard about the movie, 12th... [Read More]

Three Days a Week is still a Habit

Lesson from Tranquility by Tuesday

Posted on October 7, 2023

Things don’t have to happen daily—nor do they have to happen at the same time every day—in order to count in our lives. I maintain that anything that happens three times a week counts as... [Read More]

Generations

The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents

Posted on September 2, 2023

I recently finished reading the book, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents and wanted to share about it. The book is written by Jean Twenge, who is a professor of Psychology at... [Read More]

Seva

Sikh Secrets on How to be Good in the Real World

Posted on June 30, 2023

Hi friends, sorry for the looong delay, but here to share another episode in the Book of the Month series. I recently read the book, “Seva: Sikh... [Read More]

Here, There and Everywhere

Best-Loved Stories of Sudha Murthy

Posted on February 26, 2023

I am experimenting with a new post series called the Book of the Month. As part of this series, I will write about books I have finished and... [Read More]

Do Deadlines Help?

Lessons from The Personal Kanban book

Posted on April 22, 2022

As I was reading the book, The Personal Kanban, I came across this experiment done by MIT professor Dan Ariely on deadlines. He was... [Read More]

Moving To-Do To-Done

Lesson from The Personal Kanban book

Posted on March 25, 2022

To-do list is one of the more common tools in the arsenal of someone trying to stay on top of things. The idea is very simple, you write... [Read More]