I picked up Helgoland thinking it would be a book about physics. Equations, experiments, and the occasional anecdote about eccentric scientists. What I didn’t expect was a philosophical detour into the very nature of being. Rovelli gave me all the quantum mechanics I’d hoped for—but layered beneath it, like a whisper through a canyon,…
Michael Connelly has long kept a steady rhythm — one novel a year, usually in October, often centered around Harry Bosch or Renée Ballard. Or, more infrequently around The Lincoln Lawyer. But Nightshade broke that rhythm. It arrived early. Unexpectedly. And with a new voice. Garrett Stillwell isn’t LAPD. He’s with the LA County…
I recently read Richard Koch’s The 80/20 Principle. I expected a productivity book. And that’s what it is—brisk, strategic, full of charts and capitalism. But like all sharp tools, it left me with questions far beyond the domain of work. The principle is simple: 80% of outcomes come from 20% of inputs. Focus on…
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane is a book about artificial intelligence. But it is also a book about animals, dreams, loopholes, and misunderstandings. And it is, most surprisingly, a book full of affection. I came to it long after its publication, as a way of learning and…
In the previous two posts, I introduced Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland and the concept of Quantum Entanglement or Quantum Coherence. This post is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and its relationship with Nagarjuna. I first heard about Nagarjuna in an Operations Strategy lecture taken by Prof. Saral Mukherjee at IIM Ahmedabad in 2021….
In my last post on Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli, I said that the Quantum entanglement and relational interpretation of the quantum mechanics need their own posts. This is the post on Quantum entanglement. However, this is not only about entanglement, but also about coherence. I first heard about quantum entanglement in a talk by…
It’s not very often that I read a book that blows my mind. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli is one such. Carlo Rovelli is an Italian Theoretical Physicist and he has written several popular science books. Helgoland is my first one and I believe that now there will be several more. The book is in…
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan is probably one of the earliest “thrillers”. In the introduction to the book in my Collins Classics edition it is mentioned that Buchan himself called this book a “Shocker”. And it is one. Great pace in the narrative, spare language and crackling dialogues. The book is a slim…
Trust me I’m lying – confessions of a media manipulator is a fascinating read. In this book, Ryan Holiday exposes the way the information economy- blogs, news sites, popular social media handles work. I picked up this book to continue the Life in Learning series that I spoke about in my post on Made…
This post continues the tradition of life in learning that I had started while I had devoted an year to academic pursuit. The life in learning posts are typically longer than my regular posts and summarize my key takeaways from reading a book. This entry in the series is based on Made to Stick…