#006 TIR Newsletter

A weekly newsletter that will make you curious about business, technology and people.

#Article

5 Myths About Strategy: In common with many professions and disciplines, strategy has its myths – half-truths and half-understood assumptions that eventually lead to mistakes and even disasters.?

Popparazi: An social media app you may not have heard of but it topped the US Apple App store surpassing TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and what have you. Interestingly, it is not an app about you and selfies, it is an app for posting pictures of your friends. Who knew this could have a market.?

#Book

How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley: The key premise of the book is "We underestimate the impact of Innovation in the long term and overestimate over the short term." Matt goes through various industries stating examples of various inventions that over a period of time and through multiple trials and errors have impacted our lives in an unimaginable way.?

#Productivity

Instapaper is an app I have been using for a while to bookmark and segment articles, links and profiles. It is simple and easy to use saves me a lot of time when I want to refer to something I have read previously or while creating this newsletter.?

#About TIR:

Things I Read, TIR, Newsletter is a curation of interesting things I read this week. I read anything under the sun. I don't follow a specific genre. Reading topics across domains has helped me with partnerships, innovation, building and nurturing relationships and my podcast.

The way I curate my readings are based on recommendations by a number of people whom I have followed over the years; friends, authors, experts, critics, and some amazing newsletters.