Rahul gives unsolicited advice

TL;DR - Learning is a continuous process, I hadn't learnt a new thing in a while (outside of work-specific stuff) and I enrolled to the "Engineering the Space Shuttle" course of edX. This is a meta post - which means that it will list all of the other blogposts that I am going to write about this course. Learning is a continuous process and I started fully appreciting a college/classroom education a little too late (towards the end of my college education). There are things that one can learn by themselves and there are things that have to be taught in a classroom. There are also a lot of things in between but let's ignore them for now. Also, there's a difference in what l learn from a classroom course when compared to what I learn in the classroom. I might learn things that I need or things that are relevant when I learn something by myself but I get a better sense of how everything fits together in the classroom. The best way to get a classroom experience o...

I recently got some good headphones ( Anker SoundCore Q20 ) so I've been listening to podcasts as I bike to and from work. I was introduced to the world of podcasts on one of my trips to the Enthought Austin office and I got hooked. I used to listen to 99 % invisible earlier and now i'm listening to a lot of NPR's Planet Money . A few episodes that listened to recently are - The working tapes of Studs Terkel - Stud Turkel toured the United States in the 70s recording people's descriptions of their jobs and their lives. This reminded me of P. Sainath's book "Everyone loves a good draught" which is a collection of stories about rural India. I wonder if someone is doing something similar now. The Chicao Boys - Part I and Part II - The story of Chicago trained Chilean economics and the role they had in a Chilean revolution. In the story, there is a mention of how the United States/CIA sponsored Chilean newspapers/weekly magazines to influence the ...