Four Indians bag the MIT Innovator’s award: ANITA GOEL for work on nano, SHILADITYA SENGUPTA for Delivering drugs to cancer cells , NARASIMHA CHARI for Setting the mesh networking standard and RAJIT MANOHAR for Taking the clocks out of computer chips. It really inspires me when I read about such people.

NYT: " What’s so clever about the iPod Nano ($249) is that it merges these two approaches. It contains memory chips, so it’s dazzlingly tiny - 3.5 by 1.6 by 0.27 inches, to be exact, about the size of a folded playing card and thin enough to slip under a door. Yet because Apple stuffed it with four gigabytes of memory, it holds as much music as some hard-drive players - more than 1,000 songs.

Po Bronson :What Should I Do With My Life? : MONEY Doesn’t Fund Dreams It turns out that having the financial independence to walk away rarely triggers people to do just that. The reality is, making money is such hard work that it changes you. It takes twice as long as anyone plans for. It requires more sacrifices than anyone expects. You become so emotionally invested in that world – and psychologically adapted to it – that you don’t really want to ditch it.

One of the weekdays , there was a surprise visit from my undergrad friend, Sendil . Was very anxious to meet him as it was more than 6 years since I had any talk with him. He later called me up and said he would be late by half hour. The next best thing to do was for me to do was browse through Gangarams book store , where I chanced upon " Getting Things Done" , a book which remained in the national best seller’s list for a long time.

One of the weekdays , there was a surprise visit from my undergrad friend, Sendil . Was very anxious to meet him as it was more than 6 years since I had any talk with him. He later called me up and said he would be late by half hour. The next best thing to do was for me to do was browse through Gangarams book store , where I chanced upon " Getting Things Done" , a book which remained in the national best seller’s list for a long time.