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THE NOTEBOOK: ISSUE 18

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Hi
Welcome to the 2019 April issue of ‘The Notebook’.

This is a list of books, movies, blog posts, interviews, video clips and other stuffI found interesting and feel worth sharing.I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.

If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…

Here it goes…

A Book Worth Sharing:

The Atlas of Beauty by Mihaela Noroc

Since 2013 Mihaela Noroc has travelled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity and beauty all around us. The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs that celebrates women from all corners of the world and shows that beauty is everywhere, regardless of money, race or social status, and comes in many different sizes and colours.
Take a look at some of the photographs here…

“Atlas of Beauty: women and girls around the world – in pictures”

A Movie Worth Sharing:

Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano

I must quote a few lines from Roger Ebert’s review…

“It has been said that Western art is the art of putting in, and Eastern art is the art of leaving out.

The new Japanese film “Fireworks” is like a Charles Bronson “Death Wish” movie so drained of story, cliche, convention and plot that nothing is left, except pure form and impulse.

Not a frame, not a word, is excess.

The film is an odd viewing experience. It lacks all of the narrative cushions and hand-holding that we have come to expect. It doesn’t explain, because an explanation, after all, is simply something arbitrary the story has invented.”Fireworks” is a demonstration of what a story such as this is really about, fundamentally, after you cut out the background noise.” – Roger EbertRead the complete review here…

An Idea Worth Sharing:

“Werner Herzog on reading and writing” (via Austin Kleon)

Here are two quotes of Werner Herzog from the article…“I’ve always been more interested in teaching myself. If I want to explore something, I never think about attending a class; I do the reading on my own or seek out experts for conversations. Everything we’re forced to learn at school we quickly forget, but the things we set out to learn ourselves — to quench a thirst — are never forgotten, and inevitably become an important part of our existence.”“Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. If you don’t read, you will never be a filmmaker. Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society.”

A Quote Worth Sharing:

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”— Chuck Palahniuk ( via Tim Ferris )

Random Stuff:

“A photographer re-creates the snapshots in old family albums”

Thanks for reading.

Take care and have a nice month…

The Notebook: Issue 17

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Hi
Welcome to the 2019 March issue of ‘The Notebook’.

This is a list of books, movies, blog posts, interviews, video clips and other stuffI found interesting and feel worth sharing.

I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.

If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…Here it goes…

A Book Worth Sharing:

Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan

This is an amazing graphic novel written and drawn by Israeli author and illustrator Rutu Modan.
“Exit Wounds is a lovely and strange and unpredictable story. Exit Wounds is surprisingly quiet and restrained. There’s never a big reveal, or a Shocking Plot Twist™, just a lot of small character moments that show you how little people are knowable, even the people theoretically closest to you.”
Read the complete review here…

A Movie Worth Sharing:

Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas

The film won the best director award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.Guillermo del Toro ranked it number 1, in his favorite ghost stories on film list…
Read Olivier Assayas’s interview on making this film…

“I don’t think I would’ve written this screenplay if I had not known Kristen Stewart.”

An Idea Worth Sharing:

“Here’s a cool trick to show the kids at parties. Take a problem—any problem—in your life, and you’ll realize that it’s fundamentally an emotional problem.

  • Working too much? Anxiety and stress are driving you mad = emotional problem.
  • Not working enough? Lethargy and indifference = emotional problem.
  • Sister pissed off at you for stealing her birthday cake? Being a selfish asshole = feeling entitled and vindictive towards your sister = emotional problem.
  • Don’t have any friends? Inability to connect with others in any meaningful way = emotional problem.

I could do this all day. Name a personal problem and I guarantee there’s some sort of emotional dysfunction at the heart of it. A lot of my next book is based on this idea. And one of the realizations that came up while writing it is that we tend to think of self-discipline in terms of having the right knowledge and ideas and then executing on them. We always think of a disciplined person as having their mental shit together, when really, it’s that they have their emotional shit together.Because when you get down to it, self-discipline isn’t about knowledge or even effort—self-discipline is fundamentally about emotions. If an action or behavior doesn’t feel right then eventually, you will stop doing it. Or, conversely, if the wrong behavior feels right, you will keep doing it. So really, self-discipline, in many ways is about getting a handle on your own emotions.” – Mark Manson

A Quote Worth Sharing:

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” — Bertrand Russell. (Via, BrainFood#303)

Random Stuff:

“The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup”

It’s a long article. But this is well worth a read, so please take your time to read it.
And I’ll tease you with few quotes…
“But the second thing it does is more important. The technology forces you to be present—in a way flat-screens do not—so that you gain authentic experiences, as authentic as in real life. People remember it not as a memory of something they saw but as something that happened to them.”
“It will be the most social medium yet. More social than social media is today.”
“Something certainly has just happened. A threshold has been crossed. After a long gestation, it is good enough to improve quickly. It’s real.”

Thanks for reading.

Take care and have a nice month…

The Notebook: Issue 16

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Hi there,

Welcome to the 2019 February issue of ‘The Notebook’.

This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,

interviews, video clips and other stuff

I found interesting and feel worth sharing.

I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.

If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…

Here it goes…

A Book Worth Sharing:

“Grotesque” by Natsuo Kirino  

The book is a little difficult to get into. But once you get past that… you’ll not regret it.

Here, in her own words…

“I really enjoyed writing it, but I feel like it’s a bit difficult to get into. There’s this constant issue of the narrator’s ambiguity and the question of whether or not she’s actually reliable. It’s like Rashomon: Can the information she gives be trusted? Or is it a lie? Grotesque was a hit in Japan, but I was really surprised. I thought it was more of a self-indulgent work that would never become popular the way it did.”

Read the complete interview here…

A Movie Worth Sharing:

“Roma” by Alfonso Cuaron

This film is on Netflix. So anyone can watch it with Netflix subscription.

But read Austin Kleon’s comment about watching the film on a big screen…

“The picture was striking on the big screen, but I thought the sound was actually what made it worth seeing in the theater.

Much has been made over seeing Roma on the big screen — the filmmakers have even posted a guide to TV settings for getting the best picture. I’ve yet to hear anyone argue that you should go to the theater for the sound. I don’t see a guide to sound settings. That—the perfect ambient sound in a large theater like the Capitol in Gordon Square here in Cleveland—is what I doubt you could get at home from your TV, without expensive speakers.” – Austin Kleon

An Idea Worth Sharing:

“Stay Alive, Get Weird”

Well, just click the link above…

A Quote Worth Sharing:

“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are [the] meaning.”

-Alan Watts ( Via ‘Kevin Rose’ )

Random Stuff:

“Coolest Things I learned in 2018”

There are many gems here. My favourite two…

Old Status Symbols:

  • Luxury goods
  • Position of authority
  • Busy-ness
  • Endorsed by establishment

New Status Symbols:

  • Fitness
  • Position of influence
  • Flexible schedule
  • Creative Output
  • Self-actualization
  • Independent

How camera lenses change the shape of your face

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Thanks for reading.

Take care and have a nice month…

Krishnendu

The Notebook: Issue 15

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Hi there,

Welcome to the 2019 January issue of ‘The Notebook’.

This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,

interviews, video clips and other stuff

I found interesting and feel worth sharing.

I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.

If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…

Here it goes…

A Book Worth Sharing:

“Travails with the Alien: The Film That Was Never Made and Other Adventures with Science Fiction” by Satyajit Ray (Edited by Sandip Ray)

I knew that Satyajit Ray wanted to make a science fiction film at one point in time. But I never knew that he wanted to call it “Avatar”.

Take a look at the photo below. It’s the cover page of the draft treatment. He had three names in mind… ‘Avatar”(written in Bengali), ‘Martian Tales”(written in Bengali) and “The Alien”.

This is a meticulously researched book on how and why this movie never got made.

“But there’s more to this book—a collection of essays, letters, drawings, articles, short stories and interviews—than the “Alien-E.T.” controversy. Chiefly, it showcases Ray’s boundless passion for science and science fiction.” – How E.T. came home: Satyajit Ray’s science fiction

There’s also the script of the film. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Grab this book if you want to know the mind of a genius and his creative process.

A Movie Worth Sharing:

Moe No Suzaku (1997) by Naomi Kawase

One of the most beautiful and haunting Japanese films I have ever seen. “Suzaku” was Naomi Kawase’s debut feature and it won Camera d’Or ( best new film) at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

(On October 23, 2018, it was announced that Kawase had been selected by the IOC to shoot the official film for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.)

An Idea Worth Sharing:

“The Internet is Like Tokyo”

“If you go to Tokyo, you’ll see there are all sorts of really, really strange shops. There’ll be a shop that, only 1970’s vinyl and like, 1980’s whisky or something. And that doesn’t make any sense if it’s a shop in a Des Moines suburb. In a Des Moines suburb, to exist, you have to be Subway, you have to hit the mass-market Immediately.

But in Tokyo, where there’s 30-40 million people within a train ride of a city, then your market is 40 million. And within that 40 million, sure, there, a couple thousand people who love 1970’s music and 1980’s whisky. The Internet is Tokyo. The Internet allows you to be niche at scale.

Niche at scale is something that I think young people should aspire to.”  – Derek Thompson (via David Perell)

Read the complete article here…

A Quote Worth Sharing:

“Everybody enjoys what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy, and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when they walk into the room. Everybody wants that. It’s easy to want that. A more interesting question, a question that most people never consider, is, “What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for?” Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.” ― Mark Manson

Random Stuff:

“Avatar Director James Cameron’s Daily Routine for Endurance and Stamina”

Here is a typical day of James Cameron’s regime:

— 05:00 — pre-workout — green smoothie (spinach, apple, orange, banana — heavy on the spinach, and you can see the recipe below)

— 06:00 — 1 hour workout — usually kickboxing, yoga or light weight training with high intensity intervals

— 07:30 — breakfast — sometimes tofu “scrambled eggs” or a quesadilla made with plant-cheese, sometimes red beans and rice — always a protein shake made with fruit, nut butter, pea protein — use this to wash down supplements (hemp oil capsules, MSM for supple joints, vitamin D) — B12 is a sublingual tablet — and a cup of Oolong tea

— 11:00 — mid morning snack of fresh fruit (grapes, watermelon, berries) on set

— 13:30 — lunch — bowl of soup plus any one of the scores of great lunch dishes prepared by Brad and Sandy, our vegan chefs at the studio — mexican fiesta, Indian, thai, Italian (pasta, pizza, lasagna), burgers (Beyond or Hungry Planet) — these are comfort food dishes with a conscience

— 16:30 — mid afternoon — a green salad, on set

— 20:00 — dinner — a very light meal, sometimes a plant-based burger, sometimes just some humus and pita and a handful of olives, sometimes an avocado chopped up with salsa — plus always a glass of wine for stress reduction

He is currently in production on Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Read the complete blog post here…

Thanks for reading.

Happy New Year,

Krishnendu

The Notebook: Issue 14

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Swimming Pool Movie – Ludivine Sagnier (Image used without permission)

Hi there,
 
Welcome to the December issue of ‘The Notebook’.
 
This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,
interviews, video clips and other stuff
I found interesting and feel worth sharing.
I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.
If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…
Here it goes…
 
A Book Worth Sharing:
“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami
If I have to choose one Haruki Murakami fiction, I’ll choose this one…
“Wind-Up Bird” is part detective story, part Bildungsroman (a novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education), part fairy tale, part science-fiction-meets-Lewis Carroll. Like “A Wild Sheep Chase” and “Dance Dance Dance,” it features a very ordinary man as its hero – a passive, affectless sort of guy with a lowly job and even lower expectations. Like those earlier novels, it sends its hero off on a long, strange wild goose chase that turns into a sort of Kafkaesque nightmare.”
– Michiko Kakutani
 
Read the complete review here…
 
A Movie Worth Sharing:

“Swimming Pool” by Francois Ozon

One of my favourite Francois Ozon films…
 
“You’ll have to take your eyes off teen temptress Ludivine Sagnier to navigate the psychological twists in Francois Ozon’s thriller. It’s almost worth it. The French director is a major tease, as proved by the way he blended song, dance and homicide in last year’s 8 Women.”
 
An Idea Worth Sharing:
 
 
“The first time I heard a mathematician use the phrase, I was sure he’d misspoken. We were on the phone, talking about the search for shapes with certain properties, and he said, “It’s like looking for hay in a haystack.”
“Don’t you mean a needle?” I almost interjected. Then he said it again.
In mathematics, it turns out, conventional modes of thought sometimes get turned on their head. The mathematician I was speaking with, Dave Jensen of the University of Kentucky, really did mean “hay in a haystack.” By it, he was expressing a strange fact about mathematical research: Sometimes the most common things are the hardest to find.”
Read the complete article here…
 
A Quote Worth Sharing:
 
“The real problem with humanity is the following: We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.”
— E. O. Wilson ( Via David Perell )
 
Random Stuff:
 
 
“Seth Godin recently noted the following on his always insightful blog:
“The Mona Lisa has a huge social media presence. Her picture is everywhere. But she doesn’t tweet. She’s big on social media because she’s an icon, but she’s not an icon because she’s big on social media.”
This perfectly sums up a point I often find myself trying to make when arguing that people don’t need to engage social media to advance their career.”
Read Cal Newport’s complete blog post here…
 
Thanks for reading.
Take care and have a nice month…
 
Krishnendu

The Notebook: Issue 13

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Hi there,
Welcome to the November issue of ‘The Notebook’.
This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,
interviews, video clips and other stuff
I found interesting and feel worth sharing.
I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.
If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…
Here it goes…

 

A Book Worth Sharing:

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck By Mark Manson

“The opposite of every other book. Don’t try. Give up. Be wrong. Lower your standards. Stop believing in yourself. Follow the pain. And oh yeah, kill yourself. Each point is profoundly true, useful, and more powerful than the usual positivity. Succinct but surprisingly deep, I read it in one night, then read it again a month later.”

That’s what Derek Sivers wrote in his blog. And he is right. You can read it in one night and you will want to reread it again.

Read Derek Sivers’ complete review here…

Another one…

“More than a practical guidebook to choosing what’s important in our lives and what’s unimportant, it’s a brutally honest and much needed reality check about our personal problems, fears and expectations. It’s a bold confrontation of self, our painful truths, faults and uncertainties, without all the positive airy fairy fluff we’ve been spoon-fed to believe by self-help gurus.

Think positive?

“Fuck positivity,” Manson says. “Let’s be honest; sometimes things are fucked up and we have to live with it.”

Seek happiness?

“The path to happiness is a path full of shit heaps and shame,” he remarks.

By far, my favorite quote in the book.” – Tree Franklyn

Read the complete review here…

 

A Movie Worth Sharing:

Dust In The Wind By Hou Hsiao-hsien

This 1986 masterpiece from Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is a must-watch for all film lovers. I have watched it at least three times and will watch it again.

‘Dust in the Wind’ is a great starting point if you’ve never seen a Hou Hsiao-hsien film.

 

An Idea Worth Sharing:

The ‘real you’ is a myth – we constantly create false memories to achieve the identity we want

This is kind of unnerving and yet, a profound truth…

 

A Quote Worth Sharing:

“Twitter makes you love people you’ve never met and Facebook makes you hate people you’ve known your whole life.” – Ed Latimore

 

Random Stuff:

How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It)

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life.

 

Thanks for reading.

Krishnendu

 

 

 

 

The Notebook: Issue 12

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Hi there,
Welcome to the October issue of ‘The Notebook’.
As I was down with Dengue, I could not send
the September issue of ‘The Notebook’.
Sorry about that…
This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,
interviews, video clips and other stuff
I found interesting and feel worth sharing.
I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.
If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…
Here it goes…
A Book Worth Sharing –

“The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” By Amitav Ghosh

One of the best books I have read on climate change.
“The Great Derangement, which is based on a
series of University of Chicago lectures, is about
humanity’s insane inaction in the face of climate
change. And one of the central points Ghosh
makes is this: “When future generations look back
upon the Great Derangement they will certainly
blame the leaders and politicians of this time for
their failure to address the climate crisis.
But they may well hold artists and writers to be
equally culpable — for the imagining of possibilities
is not, after all, the job of politicians and bureaucrats.”
– Reviewed by Ananya Bhattacharyya
A Movie Worth Sharing –
One of the most underrated films of recent time.
Guillermo del Toro ranked “Zodiac” #1 on his list of
the best movies Fincher has ever made, saying he
watches it “at least twice a year.”
Read, Guillermo del Toro’s analysis of “Zodiac” in 13 tweets.
An Idea Worth Sharing –
Why AI poses one of the biggest threats to democracy!
Thanks for reading.
Krishnendu

The Notebook: Issue 11

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Hi there,
Welcome to the August issue of ‘The Notebook’.
This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,
interviews, video clips and other stuff
I found interesting and feel worth sharing.
I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.
If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…
Here it goes…
A Book Worth Sharing –
I want to gift a copy of this book to all the
people I know!
If only I had enough money!
If you want to read only one book this year,
then read, “ Ego is the Enemy”.
A Movie Worth Sharing – 
Richard Linklater took more than 12 years
to make this epic ‘coming of age’ film.
“The film director sculpts in time, Tarkovsky said,
and Linklater, with no guarantee about how his
raw material would turn out, has sculpted this
monumental study of a boy.”
Read Peter Bradshaw’s complete review here…
I’ll always remember the last line of dialogue…
“. . .it’s constant, the moments, it’s just — it’s like
it’s always right now, you know?
An Idea Worth Sharing –
“By and large, your success will be the sum of
the decisions you make over your career.
The problem is it’s not easy to get better at
making decisions.
A decision journal helps you collect accurate
and honest feedback on what you were thinking
at the time you made the decision.
This feedback helps you see when you were
stupid and lucky as well as when you were
smart an unlucky.
Finally, you can get the feedback you need to
make better decisions.”
Although I have not used the journal until now,
I have found this very interesting and useful concept.
Check the complete blog post here…
A Quote Worth Sharing –
– Carl Jung
Random Stuff –
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has concealed
a huge stone statue of the Buddha within a hill
covered in lavender plants at the Makomanai
Takino Cemetery in Sapporo.
It is the perfect example of “seeing is believing”.
Thanks for reading.
Krishnendu

The Notebook: Issue 10

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Hi there,
Welcome to the July issue of ‘The Notebook’.
This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,
interviews, video clips and other stuff
I found interesting and feel worth sharing.
I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.
If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…
Here it goes…
A Book Worth Sharing –
This is the best book I have read, on cinema,
ever.
I can recommend this book to anyone.
People who are not even associated
with cinema, will find it mesmerizing.
Here’s the New York Times review,
published in 1983.
If you have not read it yet, get a copy.
A Movie Worth Sharing –
This is one of my most favourite films and
one of the best lesbian romance I have ever seen.
The film won the Palme d’Or
The actresses were also given the Palme
as a special prize.
At Cannes, the film shocked some critics
with its long and graphic sex scenes.
Kechiche dedicated the award to “the youth of France”
and the Tunisian Revolution, where “they have
the aspiration to be free, to express themselves
and love in full freedom”.
The judging panel included Steven Spielberg,
An Idea Worth Sharing –
I came across this article on Farnam Street Blog.
Here’s what it is about…
“Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett’s mentor
and teacher, gave them a quiz…
“He gave us a quiz,” Buffett said, “A true-false quiz.
And there were all these guys who were very smart.
He told us ahead of time that half were true and
half were false.
There were 20 questions.
Most of us got less than 10 right.
If we’d marked every one true or every one false,
we would have gotten 10 right.”
“It was to illustrate a point, that the smart fellow
kind of rigs the game.
The point, if I have one, is that most of us
are amateurs but we refuse to believe it.
This is a problem because we’re often
playing the game of the professionals.
What we should do in this case,
when we’re the amateur, is play not to lose.”
A Quote Worth Sharing –
“Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day whispering,
‘I will try again tomorrow.’ ”
Random Stuff –
Thanks for reading.
Krishnendu

The Notebook: Issue 09

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Hi there,
Welcome to the June issue of ‘The Notebook’.
This is a list of books, movies, blog posts,
interviews, video clips and other stuff
I found interesting and feel worth sharing.
I hope you’ll like some of the stuff I am sharing.
If you have any feedback, please drop me a line…
Here it goes…
A Book Worth Sharing –
I love Haruki Murakami.
And this is one of my favourite non-fiction books.
I have read it thrice and want to read it again.
“The book is part training diary,
part reruns of escapades undertaken at the
behest of magazines and part memoir.”
Here is an excellent interview with him
on Runners’ World magazine:
Grab the book!
A Movie Worth Sharing –
This is a stunning film by South Korean
director Lee Chang-dong.
It won the best screenplay award
at 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Film critic Peter Bradshaw said the film is
“It is a picture of something inexpressibly gentle
and sad, something heartbreaking and
absolutely normal, but something stirred
up by a violent, alien incursion.
Something lands with an almighty splash in this
calm millpond of melancholy regret.”
Read the complete review here…
An Idea Worth Sharing –
“I asked 100+ people I consider mentors-
many of them modern giants in the tech space,
what their most worthwhile investment they ever
made was, either in terms of money, time or energy.
Here are few of my favourite responses…
Invest in reading.
Naval Ravikant, co-founder and CEO of AngelList:
“Every book I read that wasn’t assigned to me or that
I didn’t read with a purpose in mind. The genuine love
for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.
We live in the age of Alexandria when every book and
every piece of knowledge ever written down is a
fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant
— it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Cultivate that
desire by reading what you want, not what you’re ‘supposed to.”
Read the complete article here…
A Quote Worth Sharing –
“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper
and a dirty mind.” —Patrick Dennis
Random Stuff –
I must thank Abhijit for showing me the article.
Jim Carry’s latest film Dark Crimes is based on
this David Grann‘s article
This is a real-life mind-blowing murder mystery.
I opened the link on my mobile and devoured
the article.
I just couldn’t move without finishing it!
Trust me, it’s completely unputdownable.
Thanks for reading.
Krishnendu