I’ve been thinking of migrating the site to a new theme which had a better font than I had. Also wanted a smaller font to cover lot of text in a smaller area. Stumbled upon paperesque theme on hugo themes site. It was a simple theme with lot more focus on writing.

One of the things that I wanted to do this year was to focus a bit more on writing. I’ve had times when I wrote in bursts, and I always told myself - Yeah, this is great. I should do more of it. It is not like I feel like a Yoda who knows too much and needs to write down to teach others, in fact, it is just the opposite.

The new favorite Five years ago, if someone had asked me what my favorite TV series was, the answer would have been “Battlestar Galactica (2004 series)”. BSG was an unforgettable experience and a very thought-provoking series. Unlike many other sci-fi series or movies, it didn’t have aliens. The fight was between humanoid robots (Cylons) and humans.

Thoughts As I had mentioned in My Reading Journey, The Great Expectations was one of the first novels I read. I’ve read it so many times over the years, each time taking something away more than before. Now I’m reading it after The Return of the Native and can’t help but compare the approaches of Hardy and Dickens.

Thoughts This was the first Thomas Hardy novel that I’d read, probably during my engineering days, and re-reading it brings a lot of memories back. What I realize is that I got the gist of the story but had missed out on a lot of details that Hardy provides. Nevertheless, I had become a fan of Hardy and ended up reading almost all of his books other than Jude the Obscure.

The following two quotes sum up my ideal of leadership. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” ~ Ronald Reagan “A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Was listening to the awesome title sequence of His Dark Materials again today. It is one of those pieces of music that keep replaying in your mind even after you stop listening to it. I love listening to Intro sequence themes and there are some iconic ones among American TV shows.

As a person who loves checking off items in ’to-do’ lists and checklists, I’ve always liked books that have a list of rules/principles. Hence books like Effective Java, 201 Principles are the ones that come to mind when I think of a reading list of books related to Software Development.

Books 2020 H1

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