From Golden Roads to AI Nexuses |
Right from childhood we are taught to cultivate the habit of reading as a foundation for lifelong learning. Personally this habit has stayed with me and in many ways helped me make sense of the world around me. Even as social media fragments our attention and trains our thumbs to scroll faster than our minds can absorb, books remain my anchor. Screens may dominate our hours, pages still shape our thinking.
As Naval Ravikant has said, “I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That’s an investment to me.” I have also long followed my father’s advice that a person who reads grows wiser, more thoughtful, and better prepared for life.
I bought scores of books but managed to read only six books which interested me and were unputdownable once I started reading and flipping the pages. These six books navigate from ancient trade to philosophy, war, how civilisation rise, clash and and collapse through networks, myths and human choice. The ideas in these books challenge modern assumptions about progress and........