Sanjay Subramaniam

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The Heart Of Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

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The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

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It’s profoundly counter-intuitive for us to think of ourselves as mad. We seem so normal and mostly so good – to ourselves. It’s everyone else who is out of step … And yet maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and ...more

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“Why focus on cash flows? Because a share of stock is a share of a company’s future cash flows, and, as a result, cash flows more than any other single variable seem to do the best job of explaining a company’s stock price over the long term.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

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“As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

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“But Bezos had a rule, which was to use his heart and his intuition as well as empirical data in making a big decision. “There has to be risk taking. You have to have instinct. All the good decisions have to be made that way,”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

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“My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

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“One area where I think we are especially distinctive is failure. I believe we are the best place in the world to fail (we have plenty of practice!), and failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment. Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there.”
― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

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