My Love for Reading

If you are one of those book lovers who have become book hoarders, and cant get to finish books , dont worry you are not alone. Internet and Social Media has changed our minds forever and more so our reading habbits. ( Learnt from the book - The Shallows – What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr) . Its ok if you dip in and dip out of books just like we do with social platforms . Dip in , absorb, reflect. Dip Out . Books are not meant to be read from start to finish unless it is Fiction. Gathered amazing insights from voracious reader Naval Ravikant who i follow to learn about BLOCKCHAIN. 

1/ Blockchains will replace networks with markets.

— Naval Ravikant (@naval) June 21, 2017

I stumbled upon his podcast and jumped with joy when i heard him talk about books, and his habits of reading. (experienced joy because i overcame guilt of not reading books from start to finish and reading too many books at same time and treating books just like i treat blogs and internet, jump around, skim through ) Kitaabon se jaati raabta tha, bas ab badal gaya hai :-) 

Listen to his PODCAST ON READING , HABITS , HAPPINESS, HONESTY, DECISION MAKING here 

A Tale of Two Tweets

On Dec 19 , after reading an article by  John Rampton, Why most colleges dont teach Internet Marketing , I tweeted & copied Coursera Founder , Prof Andrew Ng , whose lecture I attended at one of the IBM Education conference. 

.@johnrampton great write up. The solution is to offer #DigitalMarketing as a #MOOC http://t.co/B6FYRQV083 cc @AndrewYNg #education Dec 19, 2014


Exactly, within 15 days , I received a revert from Vishal Sachdev, Director @ Univ of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, that solution I proposed has been implemented.


RT @vishalsachdev: @rucsb Solution implemented @uiucbusiness and @coursera https://t.co/c6Z2Xj3bq5 cc @johnrampton @AndrewYNg Jan 04, 2015 


Whoa.


Such is the power of internet, when information flows freely without boundaries of hierarchy or power.

Reminds me of New clue From Cluetrain Manifesto ( Source- Doc Searls and David Weinberger)  - On the Net, we are the medium. We are the ones who move messages. We do so every time we post or retweet, send a link in an email, or post it on a social network.


Digital Marketing course starts in April 2015, for all those who care about Digital and Marketing stuff.


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