If you look around, you cannot miss the fact that people are living in a road runner culture, meaning , People want to do everything fast. Speed publishing – Blogging , Twittering Speed Talking - IMs Speed Dialing Speed Dating Speed Sex Speed Walking Speed Yoga Yogaerobics - I saw this ad in Midtown NY and was rather amused at the way yoga, an essentially slowing down activity , is being marketed with aerobics tag

Fools try to prove that they are right. Wise men try to find when they are wrong.

I stumbled on to “Better” at a crossword store in Mumbai. Picked it up immediately after spending a minute browsing through the book… The book turned out to a great read. So, with that experience behind, I ordered the other two books written by the author Dr. Atul Gawande. His first book which is extremely popular is “Complications”. “Better” is his second book and recently he came out with a book titled “Checklist Manifesto” .

Bragging is an expensive luxury. Better not indulge in it.

Had a dose of stats at work during this week and I am still struggling to find a way out the model that I am working on. To take a break from that mode of thinking and also thanks to this three day weekend , I am writing a rather elaborate summary of , what I consider to be one of the well written books in statistics for linear models. The point of this summary is to motivate beginners - intermediate level stats oriented students to have a look at this book .