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The Bachelor of Arts by R.K.Narayan ------------------------------------------------------ i have been wanting to read this book from my school days but somehow or the other never had a chance to get a hold on this very first book of R.K.Narayan. There is a place called Book Chowk (both in Trichy and Coimbatore) where they sell and buy all sorts of used books. Chowk is any narrow laned street full of roadside book vendors in the heart of the City.you will get anything from IAS preparatory materials of Brilliant Tutorials to last month's ananda vikatan. It will be a surprise to any first time visitors that people who have not even gone to school for namesake surround themselves with books of all sizes and shapes, pounce and grab customers to have a look at what they have got to sell. more surprisingly the sellers also have some kinda knowledge about what they dusted just yesterday. these self taught small scale business men are such skilled master sellers that only strategic haggl

a Pulitzer prize winning book (1985) by Tracy Kidder on how a small company and a small team made it big in building computers.............. some notes scribbled down hurriedly while reading the book....... "Mushroom theory of management" ?? Put them in the dark, feed them shit and watch them grow !!! not everything worth doing is worth doing well...meaning...if you can do a quick-and-dirty job, and it works, do it. in computer making industry, there is no such thing as a perfect design. this lesson is the first step in learning how to get the machines out the door. an engineer should know when to stop striving for perfection. about engineers in page 146: engineers do have a professional code;among its tenets is the general idea that the engineer's right environment is a highly structured one, in which only right and wrong answers exist. its a binary world; the computer might be its paradigm. and many engineers aspire to be binary people within it. no wonder. the prospe