The High Performance Entrepreneur : Summary

There is always something to learn from reading books of people who have built great companies. In this book, Subroto Bagchi explains in a lucid and in an conversation type style, takeaways from his entrepreneurial career. The book is nicely arranged in to 18 chapters. Here are key points from each of the chapters When do I know I am ready ? If remotely, the thought of safety net haunts you and you cannot talk yourself out of it, then you are not prepared for it

Corruption - Way of life !!!!

I encountered a strange incident today. As I was leaving Bangalore, there was a need to move my stuff back to Hyderabad. I had called up one of the local packers and movers service in bangalore, one with door to door service, which means they land up at your place, pack all the things that you want to ship to your destination, and deliver at the destination . The charges for the services were definitely high.

Nature's Numbers : Book Summary

Ian Stewart’s books have really caught my attention nowadays. After reading his book, " Letters to a Young Mathematician", I gulped “Nature’s Numbers”. The book is all about seeing nature from a mathematician’s POV. The book starts off with an introduction of nature and patterns. Patterns of form and Patterns of movement are so widespread in the nature that it is difficult not to observe them. Ripples in the pond, Stripes on Zebra tiger, movement of horses, elephants, mammals all happen based on a pattern.

Remarkarble post on Math

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.