Ansh Arora
What I read this week #5

What I read this week #5

Published on: 2024-07-14

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot



"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."



How 3 non-techie women are helping fight fear of technology among Indian non-profits


Rinju Rajan, Anusha Meher Bhargava, and Akhila Somanath, three women from different parts of India, are not techies. But technology - and its potential power as a positive force - is the lifeblood that drives their work now.


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WTF happened in 1971?


A compilation of statistics that show how the course of economic history changed in 1971.



Feynman revisited


Feynman algorithm: the trick to problem solving