18/2026

 

“ No, no trouble at all…it is a pleasure having you as our customer.”- R K Laxman

17/2026

 + Watchlist

16/2026

 

15/2026

 Life will bring you many hurts and pains, but it is in them that you will find happiness, and you will bless your life and make other men bless their lives, which is the most important thing.

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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Your prime doesn’t have an age.

It begins the moment you stop waiting to be saved and start showing up for yourself.

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It's madness

to hate all roses

because you got scratched with one thorn,

to give up all dreams

because one of them didn't come true,

to give up all attempts

because one of them failed.

It's folly to condemn all your friends

because one has betrayed you,

to no longer believe in love

just because someone was unfaithful

or didn't love you back,

to throw away all your chances to be happy

because something went wrong.

There will always be another opportunity,

another friend,

another love,

a new strength.

For every end,

there is always a new beginning..... 

“And now here is my secret,

a very simple secret:

It is only with the heart

that one can see rightly;

what is essential is invisible to the eye."

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

Book: The Little Prince

14/2026

 

13/2026

 

12/2026

 

11/2026

 

10/2026 Few Links from my reading list on Mac

 https://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/

https://library.pdx.edu/

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_author_authors.html#:~:text=Than%20Twenty%20Authors-,List%20by%20last%20names%20and%20initials%3B%20commas%20separate%20author%20names,in%20the%20citation%20in%20total.

This scientist read a paper every day for 899 days. Here’s what she learned

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/this-scientist-read-research-academic-paper-every-day-what-she-learned

Technology hasn’t killed public libraries – it’s inspired them to transform and stay relevant

https://theconversation.com/technology-hasnt-killed-public-libraries-its-inspired-them-to-transform-and-stay-relevant-100900

Library as Infrastructure

https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure/?cn-reloaded=1

9/2026

"Obsessions are the only things that matter."

Source: Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941–1995​

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"You can't make time go faster, or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action." 

Source: James Clear

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8/2026

 

7/2026

 “If George Bernard Shaw had not made it a rigid rule to do first things first, he would probably have failed as a writer and might have remained a bank cashier all his life. His plan called for writing five pages each day.”

— How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

“When life gets tough, some of us feel that we’ve lost the game and life has won. But life isn’t trying to defeat you. Life isn’t even a participant—the game is yours.”

​— Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat 

Anjali Chandrashekar in New Yorker, 2026

6/2026

 

5/2026

 

Children build a snowwoman dancing with a statue, Source: The Punch

4/2026 Saul Steinberg

 

Source: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463795/mode/2up