India, July 4 -- For once, we're siding with a CEO dude-bro. Nikesh Arora, head of the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, recently admitted that he doesn't read entire books. He just skims the summary. "Why would I read 500 pages to distil 10?" he asked. It was a statement designed to trigger Book Twitter. And it did. Users called him lazy, anti-intellectual, and everything wrong with hustle culture. But hear us out... he's not entirely wrong.

Think about the last book you genuinely regretted finishing. The one with clunky prose and one-dimensional characters, or that murder mystery you solved before Chapter 3. That wasn't just Rs.300 down the drain, it was hours of your life. Time that could have been spent on a nap, therapy, or a n...