A great insight from the post : You can learn 1000 langugages and still not come up with a single useful application. In Math too, you can know zillion algorithms but you might not be able to identify the problem properly and use one of the tools available. Math like software is a set of tools and one needs to go for breadth-first learning approach rather than depth-first as it gives you the skill to identify the problem which in most of the cases is of utmost importance.

Was just looking at the Church Floor plan for some reason. Link Historic Church Floor Plan Why does the floor plan resemble a cross ? Is there a scientific reason or is it purely an echo of the religious sentiment ?

Till date, this IS the best autobiography that I have ever read. It is the story of Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computers who single handedly designed Apple II. There are so many aspects to the personality of Woz and takeaways from the book that it is hard to summarize in one post. Anyways, I will try to do so. So, here are my takeaways from the book

My self help book reading frequency is pretty erratic.Most of the gyan from these kind of books are common sensical.Having said that, I do read them for the simple reason that it triggers thoughts which motivate me to carry on. One such book that I picked up recently was " Letting Go of your Bananas" . It’s about 100 pages and can be quickly read in an hour’s time. The metaphor used in the book is derived from the story of a monkey which has got his hands trapped in a jar.