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15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse My rating: 5 of 5 stars A truly awesome book about productivity. A very easy read. I have read it almost at the beginning of this year and this book has helped me manage my time better. The strategies in this book really works. If you feel you do not have enough time to complete your personal goals, your projects, then you must read this book and follow the tactics given in this book. Many of the tactics like living via the calendar and processing emails on a scheduled time have really helped me a lot. I am able to complete a lot more task now and I do not feel stressed at all. This is a real gem for any one who wants stress free productivity. View all my reviews

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is just wow. I have read the book in almost in one breath. Truly amazing book. I now believe the earth have only two type of peoples, who have read the book and who didn't. Every entrepreneur, every business owner, every student and all other professionals must read this book. Because everybody needs to know his or her why in life. We all need to know why it is important to know "Why". View all my reviews

I was using Kaggle for over a month now to mainly learn Machine Learning using the Jupyter notebook. Yes, I am just lazy and prefer a hosted Jupyter notebook than installing one in my laptop.  I came to know the Azure also have a hosted Jupyter notebook environment. You can go to the environment by following this link           https://notebooks.azure.com You just need a Microsoft account to get started using this. In case you need any help getting started. You can use this link to explore more. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2016/11/15/jupyter-notebooks-on-azure-with-notebooks-azure-com / I have written a small code to test the performance of vectorized and non vectorized version of vector multiplication. The notebook can be downloaded from https://gist.github.com/tikluganguly/36109c9509ace6e14fae05bb8696e207 The interesting thing is, how it performs in Azure and Kaggle.  Bellow is the screenshot of the code running in Kaggle

The Man Behind the Wheel: How Onkar S. Kanwar Created a Global Giant by Tim Bouquet My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book started really great. How the OSK's dad Raunak Singh came to India after the partition with nothing in hand and how the build an empire of Tyre business from scratch was really inspiring. I really loved the book halfway through. But after that, the book starts to lose steam. Complicated details on court cases and who told what was not really something interesting and adds any value to me personally. So overall I would still recommend this book. Do read the first 50%. The next 50% is your choice. View all my reviews