The first thing that came to my mind while reading Self-Made Maverick by Dr. Reza Zahedi was a memory from a basketball court many years ago.   I was already past the age when most players begin slowing down. Yet there I was, tying my shoelaces before a state tournament, hearing the usual whispers: Why continue? Why not step aside?   Sometimes the world quietly hands you a script about how things are supposed to unfold. And sometimes the only way forward is to refuse to read

There’s a particular kind of confidence that comes from building something without excess. Not the loud confidence of billion-dollar funding rounds or glossy launch events—but the quiet certainty of knowing every screw, every line of code, every decision had to justify its existence.   LeanSpark feels like that kind of confidence.   I began reading it at a time when every startup headline seemed to scream “more”—more capital, more valuation, more speed. And here was a book ca

Some books don’t knock gently. They kick the door open, drag a chair into the centre of your life, and say, “Sit. We need to talk about the dream you keep postponing.” The Storypreneur’s Playbook: Fifteen Inspiring Stories to Unleash the Entrepreneur in You by Prateek Roy Chowdhury and Nitin Babel is exactly that kind of book — the kind that arrives like a storm and leaves as quiet clarity.   To be honest, I first heard about this book from a close entrepreneur friend — a wom