On Twitter, we keep following what we like. Linkedin shows you similar and you might know and related links. With this Big Data, will some day we actually know what we are looking for?
Net Galley Challenge
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Blaise Lantana
I heard Blaise lantana say 'I am Blaise Lantana' at Chandler Jazz Festival. The music was fun. we all danced to it.
Belgian Malinois
Belgian Malinois
Monster High Password Journal
Monster High
You have to say the password to see how rad the journal is. Diary has come a long way from the times of Samuel Pepys. It feels as sci-fi as the cars with doors that open upwards like wings. The invisible ink is cool too. Only you have to keep moving the journal close to the light, to read what you have written. It would have been better if we could adjust the light to fall on the book.
Pitch Perfect
Bill Mcgowan
This book has a gazillion of techniques of how to get your message across in different settings. Scorcese principle, pasta-sauce reduction are good mnemonics for some of the ways.
" He is also a trusted advisor in the C-suites of tech companies like, Facebook, Spotify, AirBnB, Dropbox and Salesforce.com."
The above line was the line that lured me into the book. These are the hot companies of the day and public has interest in knowing about all they can about them.
With these names on the blurb, I was expecting specific techniques applied to the said companies. It must be a trade secret that the author does not want to divulge. Thats one disappointment with the book. Another is, with the sea of lessons, the book has too much general stuff that could have garnered weight with specific examples. I have just read Scaling Up Excellence with a lifetime load of lessons, so my expectation is way too high.
PS: My neighbour saw me reading this book and said that its made into a movie. she thought I was reading Pitch Perfect.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Culture
Today I had a breakthrough in understanding cultures.
A person tries to understand another culture still through their own culture systems.
So is it possible to truly understand another culture? Is it only through adoption?
Pets and Americans.
In Hindu mythology, animals are a didnt-make-it-to-humans category in the Spin-the-Karma-Wheel game.
A person tries to understand another culture still through their own culture systems.
So is it possible to truly understand another culture? Is it only through adoption?
Pets and Americans.
In Hindu mythology, animals are a didnt-make-it-to-humans category in the Spin-the-Karma-Wheel game.
Garish
I learnt how to spell garish correctly.
My friend sent along this oil paintings link.
What goes on in the mind of the artist when the first stroke or paint is applied onto the canvas.
A swath of paint
Is it like a newline in poetry?
A breath that sustains life
My friend sent along this oil paintings link.
What goes on in the mind of the artist when the first stroke or paint is applied onto the canvas.
A swath of paint
Is it like a newline in poetry?
A breath that sustains life
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Finding your green thumb
To begin with its funny, pea pods with names. Arlo is one plucky Fellow. He overcomes many obstacles and grows up literally and metaphorically. I was fascinated by Mendel's experiments. Once a relative gave us lot of peas from his farm. We had peas curry to the point of fatigue, while a handful in biryani go a long way to make it special. But I never learnt how they grow until I read this book. Now I'm gonna grow some peas in the garden.
The busy illustrations with sparse words highlight Arlo's activity.
Too much Ballet for a day
The cover looks very cute but there stops the novelty. What follows is an encyclopaediac sketches of bunnies doing all the hard moves of ballet. All this in one day. Phew! Too much crammed on a page.
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