Rahul gives unsolicited advice

I realised yesterday that this blog has been active (well, active by my standards) for over 10 years now. I started posting in July 2011. I'm not entirely sure why but that made me happy. Very happy. There have been ups and downs and I don't post regularly. I don't know what I was on in 2015 but I posted 113 times that year, the most in an year so far and this year was by far the worst, with only 5 posts. What can I say, there are times when I feel like I have a lot to say and times when I don't. I've changed how this blog looks a number of times and I decided to use the Wayback Machine to look at how this blog has looked over the past decade. Here's how it looked in April of 2013. I was, and still am, a big fan of Batman and the background image is by Yale Stewart who created the JL8 comic strip. The "title" or name of the blog has also changed over the decade and I guess I called it "The Nameless Journal" in 2013, for whatever reason. Not...

 The books on my bookshelf that I haven't touched yet, some of which I bought 2 or 3 years ago. Showa : A History of Japan - 1926-1939 Bottle of Lies : Ranbaxy and the dark side of Indian pharma Big Billion Startup - The untold Flipkart story I do what I do Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds Everybody loves a good draught. I've read this twice but I need to read it again this year. Vagina problems - Endometriosis, painful sex and other taboo topics The impatient woman's guide to getting pregnant The 7 habits of highly effective people On Writing by Stephen King . It improved my writing the first time I read it and that was a while back so I need to read it again. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy Being mortal The inner game of Tennis . This too I've read once but I don't remember much of it now. You can be rich too The invisible man The body The making of the Atomic Bomb The hour between dog and wolf The once and future king . This was a gift. As y...