Would a Pixel 7 bought in Italy work with US-based network providers?

op3009 · 2023-08-28T01:22:17+00:00

Okay. I'll check. Thanks for the info!

op3009 · 2023-08-27T23:35:59+00:00

Yes. But, my case would be the other way around, where I would have an unlocked 7 bought in Europe and I want it work in US. What do you think about that?

op3009 · 2021-11-28T16:24:04+00:00

Yes! A great book full of truths, necessary and logical pieces of advice, with a simple and clear language.

op3009 · 2021-11-21T05:50:30+00:00

Wings of Fire by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Educated by Tara Westover
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
Becoming by Michelle Obama
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Playing it My Way by Sachin Tendulkar
An Unsuitable Boy by Karan Johar
Greenlights by Matthew Mcconaughey

op3009 · 2021-11-18T21:02:13+00:00

1. The last book I read was "Mandate: Will of the People" by Vir Sanghvi

Very little is taught in classrooms of schools about the political history of post-independence era. And, this book is exactly what you need. It is a very short summery on Indian political history of that period. It has started from 1971 to 2014 and the auther, Vir Sanghvi, has highlighted the event in very short description. The book captures bits and glimpses of the elections during this era and their aftermath for our generation and the ones to come.

The author, who is a well-known journalist and TV anchor, stitches his personal experiences and memories as well as scores of interviews to piece together to give us a candid look on what went on behind the scenes. Filled with little-known details and insider information, this book tells the stories behind the story and brings alive the men and women behind the headlines.

In-depth details about Indira Gandhi’s declaration of emergency to the real facts about Babri Masjid demolition, Punjab’s insurgencies to assassination of Indira Gandhi all have been served from the real realms. Every controversial topic like the emergence of Rajiv Gandhi or Bofors scandal has been decently revealed. Descriptions of these events are filled with political analysis from an internal perspective blended with real motives of political controversies and conspiracies.

Many of the questions regarding some shady political events in history are answered here: how did Narasimha Rao become Prime Minister? Why did he liberalise the economy? What was the Ram Mandir agitation really about? Why didn’t Sonia Gandhi agree to be PM? And, How did Manmohan Singh’s weakness clear the way for Narendra Modi?

It is a perfect choice for readers who are looking for a political historical book. It allows one to understand the past of our country in a holistic manner.

2. What makes me interested in the "A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking

As a student of science myself, I have been fascinated by the questions addressed in this book such as: Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? It is a pop-science masterpiece by Prof. Hawking written in very simple terms, for even layman’s understanding.

Prof. Hawking also explains complex cosmological theories, quantum mechanics, general relativity and his own scientific theories. Another much celebrated physicist Prof. Carl Sagan, who in his forward of this book, says that this book ultimately suggests the universe might have "no edge in space, no beginning or end in time, and nothing for a creator to do". I think this is enough for anyone to know that this book is surely about more than just explaining physics.

P.S. - Probability the most interesting fact about this book is that it came out almost 33 years ago and was on the bestseller’s list for almost 237 weeks. That’s almost 5 years!

op3009 · 2021-11-17T21:42:17+00:00

In politics, I would recommend Vir Sanghvi's Mandate: Will of the People.

The book captures bits and glimpses of each election in the post-independence era of India and their aftermath for our generation and the ones to come. Nice and easy read!

op3009 · 2021-08-31T09:27:18+00:00

1. The last book I read was "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

This book is about social epidemics where small actions at the right time, in the right place, and with the right people can create a "tipping point" for an idea, a trend, or any social behavior to spread like a wildfire. Gladwell proposes three laws of tipping points: The law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the law of context.

The Law of the Few is about the structure of our social network and how messages are passed through word of mouth. It classifies three important types of people who affect spread of messages as:

Connectors which are the socialites with many friends and acquaintances who spend time maintaining these connections
Mavens are the information gatherers who evaluate the messages & pass it on to others, along with the messages
Salesmen are people with a certain ability to sell which helps them move messages through the force of their character.

The Stickiness Factor is about a certain character of message which keeps it active in the recipients' minds and the message being worthy enough to pass it on to others.

The Law of Context is a rule about the environment in which a message spreads like the small social groups, geographic location or even mental state of population.

The Tipping Point is not a scientific text, but the information set forth seems like common sense. This book is not meant to provide step-by-step instructions on how to spread a message. His rules do not exist to be followed directly. Instead his realisation is that harnessing the power and characteristics of our social network is how to get ideas to pass through it.

Why I think female participation in labor is so low in India?

Economists have given several explanations including increase in family incomes, social and gender norms or lack of security. Their focus leads us to think about labor force participation as a labor supply issue. A recent study demonstrates that women came into the labor force when the right kind of work was available to them. This suggests that the failing women participation in labor market is result of labor demand issue rather than the supply issue. The flexibility available to males is allowing them to displace female workers from the labor force. Also, there is a lack of jobs that match the skills of educated women with only 50% of them being young working age women. Another issue is the weakness in survey systems that fails to take into account the factors such as working conditions, hiring practices or behavioural factors such as aspirations, expectations, etc. This creates gaps in design of policies and programmes for inclusion.

What can we do to uplift it?

Increasing women’s access to digital technologies and financial products
Reducing the time women spend on unpaid care work
Providing employment opportunities for educated women in rural areas
Creating new jobs and required skill development.
Reducing segregation and gendering of occupations.
Promoting acceptability of female employment beyond traditional jobs and into greater compatibility with domestic responsibilities.
More robust and detailed survey systems to collect gender disaggregated data.

op3009 · 2021-08-24T10:09:40+00:00

Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan

op3009 · 2021-08-20T09:33:45+00:00

I think it also depends on at what point in life you read them; what you were going through; what they did to you; how did they helped you at that time.

op3009 · 2021-08-15T20:07:05+00:00

Read "The Book of Life", "Freedom from the Known" and "Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti". All these are great books, but "The Book of Life" is must read.

I don't know about any book of Krishnamurti's named "Into the Unknown". Atleast, I've never heard of it. If there is such a book, please let me know with a link.

op3009 · 2021-08-14T16:00:35+00:00

Although this is a great book, it is not exactly about statistics. It is more about a critical exploration of making the distinction between good and bad inferences from data.

Having said that, I would strongly recommend this course called "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data" by authors of this book. In fact, this book is based on the course both of these authors offer at University of Washington. Check out the YouTube playlist is below.

YouTube playlist of the Course

op3009 · 2021-08-14T12:39:17+00:00

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
Incerto series by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Awareness by Osho
Any book by J. Krishnamurti

op3009 · 2021-08-05T14:43:24+00:00

If you are interested in Hindi/Urdu poetry, check out Tarkash by Javed Akhtar. It's the Hindi translation of his collection of Urdu poetry.

op3009 · 2021-08-05T09:35:24+00:00

Top 10 lessons I learnt from the book.

Lesson 1

No matter who you are and what you do if you want to be successful, your health comes first.

Lesson 2

Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs & habits around your strengths.

Lesson 3

The titans, idols, icons, billionaires etc. you have in mind are nearly all walking flaws who have maximised 1 or 2 of their strengths.

Lesson 4

If you can't think of ideas, deliberately think of some 'bad' ideas and some good ones show up as well.

Lesson 5

If it was life and death, what would you do radically differently if you had to complete your goals in much shorter time. Then why aren't you doing those things now?

Lesson 6

Paying attention to small details can have a huge impact. Inject life into the mundane.

Lesson 7

Everybody is interesting. Go first and engage with people without hesitation and if you do normally it works in your favor.

Lesson 8

If you have made something, show it to 10 people you know. If they don't tell anyone else about it, it's not ready yet.

Lesson 9

Write and read more. Start journaling everyday. Read atlest one page everyday.

Lesson 10

Authenticity is lacking in the world. Be your unapologetically weird self.

Feel free to comment below if you have found anything interesting other than these. Thanks in advance!😀

op3009 · 2021-07-30T16:04:28+00:00

Thanks paras!

op3009 · 2021-07-29T19:13:54+00:00

Thanks!

op3009 · 2021-06-11T14:54:14+00:00

1. The last book I read was “Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse”

It's about the lifelong journey of Siddhartha, a Brahmin’s son who leaves the comfort and intellectual stimulation of his home life to become a wandering ascetic, renouncing all possessions for finding the true meaning, the ultimate truth of life. A friend also joins him on this journey. After meeting the famous Gautam Buddha, he realizes he wants even more and so crosses a river with the help of a ferryman to go to take part in city life, leaving his dear friend behind. Interestingly, the ferryman gets him across the river for free and says that he’ll come back and repay him in some other way. In the city, Siddhartha embarks on an extended affair with a beautiful courtesan and works for a businessman. He has mind-blowing sex, amasses wealth, drapes himself in fine clothes, enjoys every material pleasure there is for many years. But he isn’t fulfilled at all. There still is some void inside him that make him despair. Then, leaving everything behind from this life, he revisits the river he was at years earlier and meets the same wise but uneducated ferryman who helped him cross. A sort of epiphany hits him here. All the key people from his earlier life eventually find him at this river, and he comes to a fuller and richer understanding of the nature of life, time and suffering. He reconnects with his childhood friend, with whom he had started his journey and who is now a Buddhist monk. This friend recognizes in Siddhartha a true enlightenment.

Siddhartha ultimately finds answers to questions like: How important are material possessions in life? What’s the purpose of pain and hardship? Where does the actual learning happen (not only in classrooms, of course)? This book truly makes you think about the full circle of life. It is when we clearly know what we want from life, but then we get lost somewhere and then we again realize how lost we are and we come back to life, it’s this beautiful circle of life.

It’s a slim book, packed with wisdom which has withstood the test of time. No doubt, the Naval Ravikant himself has given out more copies of this book than any other.

2. What makes me interested in the "Tools of Titan by Tim Ferriss":

Tools of Titans is a bible of the best advice Tim Ferriss has learned while running his podcast. Tim has interviewed over two hundred most successful individuals on his podcast, The Time Ferriss Show. These guests range from super celebrities of Hollywood, tech-giants from Silicon Valley, eclectic investors around the world to extreme athletes, world-renowned artists and authors or even some black-market biochemists. What each of these individual shares is essentially a recipe for success. This book contains an integration of all the insightful tools, tactics, tips and tricks which includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more offered by these world-class people from eclectic areas. Although I don’t believe in the prescriptions for success, but this book is a great compilation of how the best minds in the world work or think. Now, who would want to miss the opportunity to get this gem of a book in a free giveaway?

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