This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the “gene,” the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information. When you read good books, you start immersing yourself into the world of . . . Read more

Every day for the past few months I would excitedly look forward to my work commute across this dreary city; I was listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History. As I was fiddling around with the various podcast apps trying to find one that I could use while driving without getting mysel . . . Read more

"Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest w . . . Read more

“We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own vo . . . Read more

"Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so." -The Checklist Manifesto It is such a simple idea, and yet so hard to follow. When your work is complicated, involves serious teamwork, needs to be done in a time critical manner, is prone to errors of oversight; make a checklist. Follow it diligently, a . . . Read more

These are some notes I took from the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. Let me first start with the cons of the book. First the book is tediously repetitive, while some repetition is good to drill the concepts deep in your mind, the book overdoes it. Second, the book is clearly intended for pe . . . Read more

An Area of Darkness is a disturbing pessimistic novel written by V.S. Naipaul about his first visit to India in 1962. This was India not too long after the Independence with it’s freshly minted Constitution, trying to make a transition from an English past to an Indian future. Naipaul shares t . . . Read more

Thinking, Fast and Slow in a life changing book written by our lord and savior Daniel Kahneman, Danny Kanny. If you haven’t read this book you should drop everything that you’re doing and start reading it right away. It is extremely well written and easy to read, with short chapters and . . . Read more