Since coming back to California, I’ve quickly made a point to visit all my favorite cuisines and restaurants that I missed while I was in Hyderabad – Gooyi Gooyi, pho, shabuway, Del Taco, dim sum, and Panda Express. But, I’ve found myself really missing India, in large part because I’ve been reading Shantaram, a 900+ [...]
Google brought Christian Lander, the viral blogger turned book deal author of Stuff White People Like, to speak. For me, it was fascinating to see how fast his blog and popularity skyrocketed due to the Internet. He claims he only started the blog after having a conversation about The Wire [which as you may know, [...]
A few coworkers this morning were doing a bit of Stanford bashing, talking about the neo-conservative bastion that is the Hoover Institution. No doubt this is justified, as the Hoover Institution is well-funded and shielded think-tank, which is a complete antithesis of the liberal-minded student body. What makes the Hoover Institution so conservative? Well, it [...]
In the effort to recoup the massive amount of money I have poured into textbooks over the past four years, I’ve been selling books on half.com. It’s really easy – just type in the ISBN of each book, set a price, and that’s it! No need to monitor a bidding war like on [...]
J had raved to me about reading “The Inheritance of Loss.” In an effort to be erudite, I had purchased the book and started to read it last week. I unfortunately had trouble getting through it, ending up on around page 100 after a few hours of half-hearted reading. So, talking to [...]