About

I think a person’s taste in movies says a lot about them. Here is my IMDB profile.

I also like to OD on modern physics and cosmology. Here is a collection of 10 books on modern physics and cosmology where I took care not to repeat any author – i.e., 10 books by 10 different authors:

  • Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
  • Now: The Physics of Time by Richard M. Muller
  • The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
  • Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott
  • QED: The Strange Theory of Matter and Light by Richard Feynman
  • The Inflationary Universe by Alan H. Guth
  • Endless Universe by Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok
  • The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind
  • Lost In Math by Sabine Hossenfelder
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

If I were to recommend just one book it has to be Farewell to Reality. I think legitimate physics ended somewhere in the 70s. At one point I would get very excited when I read things like “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than what we can think” but now I am more disillusioned and really feel that maybe the universe is much simpler than what current scientists would like us to believe. Why am I obsessed and why do I keep reading these books then? Because they give all the stimulation of taking LSD without any harmful side effects. And perhaps that explains why such theories are postulated in the first place. 

PS: I find Enigma to be the perfect soundtrack when studying modern physics.

In addition to being a proud denier of the Big Bang theory, I also reject the theory that we are a by product of random gene mutations and chemical reactions over millions of years.

Here is a book I have written and some paintings I have made.

Trivia:

  • Android or iphone? Android is more value for money
  • Al Pacino or Robert De Niro? Al Pacino
  • Star Trek or Star Wars? Star Trek
  • Black Label or Chivas Regal? Both are good
  • Coke or pepsi? Don’t like either
  • Glenfiddich or Glenlivet? Both are good but Glenlivet would be my goto single malt
  • C# or Java? C#. I have cried programming in Java.
  • Camel Case or Snake Case? Snake case
  • Emacs or Vi? I have only used Vi. I like it and never felt the need to try emacs.
  • MySQL or Postgres? This is a tough one as I started as a MySQL user but recently transitioned to Postgres. Its difficult to pick one. [1]
  • React – yay or nay? Nay. I cannot believe why its so popular. It sucks big time.
  • Pankaj Udhas or Jagjit Singh? Pankaj Udhas
  • Most useful data structure known to man: B+Tree
  • Most powerful design pattern known to man: Service Loader
  • Exceptions vs. Error Codes? Exceptions. An exception can contain an error code inside it.
  • Worst theory of all time: Hard to pick one from so many – many worlds interpretation, superdeterminism, big bang, inflation, black holes, the list goes on. However, I have to give this one to Hugh Everett.
  • Favorite management book: First, break all the rules. Everyone should read.
  • Favorite Startup Guru: Dan Martell
  • #1 Startup Advice: SELL BEFORE YOU BUILD
  • Favorite Startup book: Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
  • Favorite cloud provider: I think I will give this to GCP

I am also a fan of old is gold.