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I just finished reading Buddha or Karl Marx By Dr. Ambedkar. It’s just a long essay or Booklet. The thing that caught my attention is the summary of Buddhist Tripiṭaka. I think this summary is the best I have read about Buddhism and why its required. The below points are quoted from Buddha...
I just finished watching Young Sheldon. The episode that stayed with me the most is the one in which he tries to make friends by reading a book – How to Win Friends and Influence People. I have not read that book1. But I have tried to make new friends since 2010. This...
Last few days 1 I was in a conversation with someone. In most cases he would end the argument with “It’s common sense”. I agreed to disagree with him on “common sense”. “common sense” is a starting point to any debate. It’s not how one ends the debate. Most people including him end...
Delivered as a speech as part of Conway Memorial Lectures at South Place Institute on 24 March 1922. This essay by Bertrand Russell a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic is very relevant even today. In this essay/speech Russel talks about the challenges for free-thought and free-speech in the context of raising...
For a long time I was scared to read Einstein. Most of my physics reading was Richard Feynman’s essays. I think its more to do with his life and character than the physics itself. If I remember properly I read A Brief History of Time when I was in college. That’s the closest...
I read Anything You Want years back. It’s a small book about building a company. It’s so small that you can probably complete it two hours. There are a couple of quotes from that have stayed with me since then. When you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com] Twitter: @thej
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