If you are curious this book has got a lot of important information you would like to know about the world.
Read More »Today knowledge and information have a much higher price than oil, I do enjoy reading business, management, history, engineering & technology books. I have learnt some amazing stuff from books, so here I will, over time, review books that I have found useful and that have made an impression on me. So here you go:
Recent Books
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Another great memoir I have just read this year, this one is from Indra Nooyi, former CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo. I never knew Indra until I listened to her in one of Master Of Scale episode with Reid Hoffman in September. In that episode Indra and Reid were discussing about …
Read More »What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
I’m in a transition phase for almost a year now and I’m spending most of my time thinking who am I, what should I do with the rest of my life and most importantly what should I do to make the economy of my country a little bit better. For …
Read More »Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
This book is about how to build a business faster, faster in such a way you can even sacrifice efficiecy for speed. I recommend this book to all entrepreneurs in startups and as well as to all executives in big and established companies.
Read More »Blockchain Chicken Farm
…..after I was done exploring lives in rural Tanzania two weeks ago, I bought this book out of curiosity, in hope that it will also take me to rural China, the country that produces the technology we are using, to explore rural lives there as well. However, you don’t have …
Read More »Prosperity in Rural Africa?
Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudal Studies in Tanzania 9th December, 2021 Tanzania celebrates 60 years of independence and next year, 2022, the country will have a census for population and housing, I think the publication timing of this book couldn’t be any better than this. This book, …
Read More »IoT and Edge Computing for Architects: Implementing edge and IoT systems from sensors to clouds with communication systems, analytics, and security, 2nd Edition
Here is a punchy and yet a comprehensive latest book (published on March 6, 2020) about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing for architects. I had a chance to work in banking industry, agricultural industry, as well as in processing industry and I can confidently tell you that …
Read More »The Competitive Internet Service Provider: Network Architecture, Interconnection, Traffic Engineering and Network Design
If you have a fibre internet link installed into your house you will probably agree with me that the internet cost is getting cheaper and that means the competition in ISP market is growing fiercely. With fibre internet link you are at least subscribing to 20/10Mbps internet service into your …
Read More »Tanzania: The Path to Prosperity
The new dynamism in Tanzania and especially the recent mobile money tax (tozo) controversy has motivated me to read this book. This book aims at giving you a dispassionate analysis on the challenges and choices confronting the country and its people in the realm of Tanzania economic policies by focusing …
Read More »A Promised Land
Where were you when you heard that America had elected its first Black president? Well, I was in my final year abroad doing my engineering degree and I was not paying attention at all. But now I think this book has something to learn for everyone. I found this book …
Read More »The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
If you are working in manufacturing industry go and read The Goal – Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt but if you are working in IT industry this novel is a must read. However I recommend you read both starting with The Goal. Then when you read this novel, The Phoenix …
Read More »Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) 1st Edition
I read this book for the first time in 2015 almost a year later after its publication in 2014 and since then I have consulted it a number of times. In fact I just consulted it again a couple of days ago. Since this book is part of the Wiley …
Read More »Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Here is another provoking, hilarious and yet very informative book from a shrewd economist, professor Steve Levitt in collaboration with a journalist Stephen J. Dubner. The authors are extremely intriguing and present their ideas about how people behave in the real world in ways that will really blow up your …
Read More »Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
A typical book written by investigative journalist. Both, the title and subtitle of this book are descriptive. In this wide-ranging book, author, David Epstein, refers a lot of books and stories. I’m kind of a generalist myself and this book affirms to my views on the “wicked” world. The ability …
Read More »The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor – and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
Very entertaining and informative book especially the last three chapters regarding economic growth, scarcity power, competition, the theory of comparative advantage, and globalization. To introduce you to these concepts the author uses Cameroon (in chapter eight: Why Poor Countries Are Poor), China (in chapter ten: How China Grew Rich) and …
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