Via Wired ( an old article) : Philosopher William James once wrote that mental life is controlled by noticing. Climbing out of the sea and onto the windy beach, my skin purple and my mind in a reverie provoked by shock, I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: _You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired.

This is the first time I am struggling to write anything about the book I have read.This book explores themes in a very complex way. The author plays with opposites, heaviness and lightness, life and death , god and atheism, love and hate etc. These themes are explored from the lives of the characters in the novel , Tomas, Sabina, Teresa, Frez . Relationships with god, wife, mistress, country, animals are explored through out the novel in “opposites”.

Non-technical books by doctors are rare , and amongst them, “hard to put down” books , are extremely rare. A view on performance by a doctor is always a nice read, for you would want to know, the variables that a doc attributes to the success. For whatever I have known about doctors, mainly anecdotal, I have the following impression : Doctors need to have excellent PR to succeed , besides the skill sets which are kind of default in any doc Its more touchy feely thing that makes you choose a specific doctor.

by Paul J Nahim This is a fascinating story of i , popularly known to most of us as square root of -1 . In the first part of the book, author, Paul J Nahin , takes you through stories of various mathematicians who struggled and contributed to the understanding of sqrt(-1) . Subsequent to this historical narrative, the author provides a lens in to viewing things from a complex domain.

This is the first time I am struggling to write anything about the book I have read.This book explores themes in a very complex way. The author plays with opposites, heaviness and lightness, life and death , god and atheism, love and hate etc. These themes are explored from the lives of the characters in the novel , Tomas, Sabina, Teresa, Frez . Relationships with god, wife, mistress, country, animals are explored through out the novel in “opposites”.