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John Median is a brilliant writer. Within “Brain Rules” book he manage to convert so many scientific and social study to story to hook the reader. He nicely describe how bring works. The author also illustrated how these finding could boost one's productivity at work, home and school. John also open up and talk about his childhood, love life and parenthood to make connection with reader and have himself and incidents which he have been through as example.

John divide the brain rules to 12 as follow:
Rule #1: EXERCISE: Exercise boosts brain power.
Rule #2: SURVIVAL: The human brain evolved, too.
Rule #3:WIRING: Every brain is wired differently.
Rule #4: ATTENTION: We don't pay attention to boring things.
Rule #5: MEMORY (SHORT-TERM): Repeat to remember.
Rule #6: MEMORY (LONG-TERM): Remember to repeat.
Rule #7: SLEEP: Sleep well, think well.
Rule #8: STRESS: Stressed brains don't learn the same way.
Rule #9: SENSORY INTEGRATION: Stimulate more of the senses.
Rule #10: VISION: Vision trumps all other senses.
Rule #11: GENDER: Male and female brains are different.
Rule #12: EXPLORATION: We are powerful and natural explorers.

Brain functionality have been discussed within this book in a way that a person with no prior knowledge could follow as well. The analogies provided within the book are nice and easy to apprehend. In addition results of many experiments on human and animal shared to back the rules provided in each section. Also it have been demonstrated how brain injuries patients contributed immensely to brain study and learn nitty-gritty of brain.

John Medina also described how these findings could be leveraged to boost productivity within school, work and personal life. John describe how and when brain could be more prepared to learn and digest materials as well as could perform well and retrieve data accordingly. Nice example of school, work and personal life have been provided to support all these findings.

Furthermore John talk openly about his childhood, love life as well as hid parenthood. This openness hook the reader and attract their attention. He have nice parables of his childhood as well as devastating ones. He directly and indirectly correlate all this stories to one of the topics within the book and illustrate their effects within his personal life.

I find this book interesting it is one of a kind for me so it gave me a lot learn. Being aware of what's possibly going on in once mind could be come handy to survive and thrive.

I've recently gone through the audiobook of “97 Principles for Software Architects” available on Scribd.
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The audiobook is quite informative and provides a wealth of insights for individuals seeking to enhance their understanding of software architecture. While I can't directly comment on “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know” as I didn't read the exact book, I found this audiobook to be a valuable resource in its own right. It covers a range of principles that are likely to benefit software architects and those in related roles. Overall, I believe it's a worthwhile listen for anyone interested in software architecture concepts and practices.

Very informative book given the era of pandemic we are in. This book is taking a deep dive regarding 1918 pandemic as well as other epidemic throughout civilization; It is picturing what we know about different types of Influenza their pathology and epidemiology.

John Barry illustrates the horror humanity go through during 1981 pandemic and how close civilization come to edge of collapse. Within the conclusion author revels the inevitability of another pandemic based on scientific study and how unprepared we are.

This book covers history of the viruses, key figures that have major contribution for discoveries about the virus as well as historical events such as word war II and significant political and medical decisions that end up saving or losing a lot of life.

“Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and principles” by Peter F. Drucker is insightful and complex book. Peter F. Drucker have elaborated innovation and Entrepreneurship in granular level within several industries. This book deserve to be studied multiple times in order to grasp fraction of what Peter F.Drucker covered here.