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2021, books read

User Friendly - easily the best book I have ever read on the evolution of Design Thinking. 

Wanting - a fabulous book on Mimetic desire or rather how what we want is mimetic. 

What does it mean to be an Indian - really the younger sibling of the magnum opus - The Heathen in his Blindness - is a fantastic short version of the original book by SN Balagangadhara. I finished both of them in 2021. 

Out of this world - How NASA created the best team on the planet.

Lateral Leadership - this is a book on a different approach to Leadership. 

Working Backwards and The Amazon Management System - two books with an insight into How Amazon works. 

India that is Bharat - a brilliant deconstruction of de-colonial thinking. Together with SN Balagangadharas book, this book shows us how we are trapped in a colonial thinking "matrix". 

Subscribed - a book with some cool insights how products need to change as they move into a subscription model. 

Seeing what others dont - a book on insights - rather how to generate insights.

No rules rules - a super read into Netflix culture.

Indian managers - a book by Ashok Malhotra - creator of the EUM framework. 

Sartha - a brilliant translation of SL Bhyrappas book. This book though a translation does a great job of transporting you several centuries ago. What a book. 

Indias most fearless - some stories from Indias military heroes. 

Rebel Talent - a forgettable book.

And for the record, I did not finish any of the books I had purchased at the beginning of the year. 

And a set of books that I started but gave up midway including some from the list at the start of the year - but I hope to go back to them.

And there is a long list of books in both physical and digital versions for me take up in 2022 - and that will expand as I buy more books.

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