This is a free Kindle book that I stumbled upon. This book is basically designed to coach you through a piece of work be it writing a book / developing a software / creating a model / new venture / new product/ new service etc. This book is not so much about “what you should do”, but more about “how you should you do it”. In any creative endeavor, most of us would agree that the biggest obstacle is “internal”.

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It is profoundly important to read around the area that you are working on; more so in mathematics. Theorems that you see in the texts are usually a result of ardous efforts / long drawn fights between mathematicians / result of being in extreme hysteria(Cantor for example)/ family duels(Bernoulli)/ Open air competitions(Solution to cubic & quartic polynomial ). It is important for any person building stochastic models to have a thorough understanding of Markov chains as they typically lead to random walks and Brownian motion concepts .

It has been a really long time since I have read any of the Seth Godin books , so picked up his latest book – “Poke the Box”. Books from Seth are usually filled with nuggets of wisdom culled out from marketers / entrepreneurs/purple cows that he comes across. To me, I love the way he writes; Straight to the point, no bullshitting, no nonsense and blends his message with anecdotes and interesting insights.

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