India, July 12 -- Dear Reader,

The best part of returning to Mumbai, apart from the monsoon rains, is being reunited with my bookshelves. Plus, there are always new arrivals waiting: bags of titles bought by the Other Reader, mostly on creativity, business and evolution, alongside review copies of new books.

This week, Breaking the Rules by Vinita Gupta caught my attention. A woman who set up a business in Silicon Valley that went for an IPO and then a buyback-that must be a story. I was also drawn to a little book called The Shopify Story.

I stumbled on Shopify a few years ago. I was looking for software to design a website for my bespoke book subscription service, and Shopify was incredibly easy to use. Within a few hours I had uploa...