Self-help guru on learning

Robin Sharma belongs to the new breed of self-help gurus. Fully comfortable with the new social media to spread his mantra. Right down to the blog and podcast.
Gurus like Robin Sharma and Anthony Robbins are what you can call 24-Hour-Fitness equivalent to Bertrand Russell’s marathon pace philosophy. They offer Schopenhauer-to-go and provide life’s [...]

Bill Watterson on Calvin and Hobbes

Some quotable quotes from the master himself:
On the future of newspaper comics -
The Internet may well provide a new outlet for cartoonists, but Iimagine it’s very hard to stand out from the sea of garbage, attract alarge audience, or make money. Newspapers are still the major leaguesfor comic strips . . . but I [...]

Our ideal of mediocrity

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. - Robertson Davies

Simple doesn’t mean easy

Just scanning all the books which I want to finish but just not able to due to thousand other reasons:
Here is one paragraph from The Art Of Project Management. Very refreshing book on the essential art of project management. Project management is like any other physical sport where the more you play, the more [...]

Reality Check

Meta quotes from Howard Bloom’s Global Brain:
After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin’ but a collective hunch  Lily Tomlin

Think big  Daniel Burnham
A removal from one set of people to another…will often include a total change of conversation,  opinion, and idea   Jane Austen

If you want to stride into the Infinite, move but within the [...]

Red Carpet and making sense of new India

Fiction writers are a different breed. They view world in a different way and lot of their training is precisely in fine tuning their ears and eyes. Which helps in interesting interpretation of the events and stories around us.
That’s why it helps to hunt for new writers and their work if objective is to understand [...]

Books to clear-up the echo chamber fog

Title of this book caught my attention - The Devil In Silicon Valley. Its a refreshingly new take on the Silicon Valley’s social undercurrent. Haven’t read the whole book, but glanced through few sections. Author Stephen Pitti makes a case that ethnic Mexicans and not the computer programmers take center stage in any contemporary [...]

Thats it

I am heading off to Barnes & Noble to get a copy of this.  Heard enough about it and cant wait 2 days of Amazon delivery.

Info Mesa

Just started reading Info Mesa, a fascinating story of famous Santa Fe Institue by Ed Regis. Partly driven by my desire to understand all institutionalized models which came up to tackle the problem (and also opportunity) related to information complexity.
From the book : -
“It was precisely the ability to reduce empirical reality to data, [...]

Versioning

There are lot of commonalities in the software design methodology and the one used by building architects. Emphasis on aesthetics, coherency, and evolutionary approach are just few of them.
Newyork based architecture design firm SHoP/Sharples Holden has come out with
a new model for architecture practice. Its called Versionining -
“Intent on exploring the computer’s capabilities for [...]