Blog Pongal – Best links of 2013
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Happy Pongal/Sankranti/Lohri/Bihu/Uttarayan to those that celebrate it. We have been celebrating the Pongal festival on the same day, after adjusting for precession, since the days of the Indus Valley Civilization (according to my research) making it a 4,500+ year old tradition. On this blog, we have been celebrating it with a harvest festival of our own – the annual Blog Pongal – a harvest of the best posts on this blog. Here are the previous editions – 2004-5 , 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 . I decided to resume this feature this year. A comment or two of encouragement would really help 🙂
Best links of 2013 from my FTOTW curation project
1. /Via @smartbrief paradox of skill http://t.co/b5Xeob23 ~ brilliant – Original Tweet
2. /Via @S_Sivakumar The legacy of Biologist Bob Paine – mentors & how scientific ideas spread http://t.co/P5KEcBXW ~ brilliant – Original Tweet
3. RT @ericries: Scientific method > patten recognition – kudos @cdixon: http://t.co/FbUvuQ6uFX ~ brilliant –Original Tweet
4. The best interface is no interface http://t.co/BMDdi6dzKN 30 min talk by @goldenkrishna ~ brilliant /Via@janupapu – Original Tweet
5. The power of constraints & the aravind eye hospital story http://t.co/LSgO63Pgvt ~ brilliant /Via @ViswaRK –Original Tweet
6. RT @ksrikrishna: A Simple Way to Create Suspense – Lee Child shares his technique http://t.co/YXzAtu4AuM ~ brilliant –Original Tweet
7. RT @m_meenaks: Brilliant and hard-hitting! BILL WATTERSON: A cartoonist’s advice http://t.co/arkzTBoFX8 ~ brilliant indeed – Original Tweet
8. Miserable & Magical, a speech by Nipun Mehta of servicespace http://t.co/pkTijHCXP2 ~ brilliant & inspiring /Via @veenatamvada-email – Original Tweet
9. RT @yarapavan: Scott Adams’ Secret of Success: Failure http://t.co/e58LnyYPY2! ~ brilliant – Original Tweet
10. /Via @DanielCoyle @DanielPeterson A Character Coach helps Bedford High football team from Zero to Herohttp://t.co/AXXtkdmhsX ~ brilliant – Original Tweet
11. /Via @gvaidees http://t.co/ONnik1sA28 Physiological basis of placebo effect.. Via a woman’s journey from Utah to Ghana ~ brilliant, moving – Original Tweet
12. RT @pascalvenier @rossdawson: Neuroscience of innovation http://t.co/VovzLxrR3X serotonin through food, exercise, sleep ~ brilliant – Original Tweet
Epilog
Hope you liked the list. What was the best article you read in 2013? Please share in the comments section.
Thanks for re-starting the pongal tradition. To be honest didn’t notice missing it earlier – catching up with the daily streams was too much.. surrounded by so much information for immediate attention. Just like the long form, it is much more meaningful to review the year – Am sure the process was rewarding for you as is the post for us – Truly scrumptious. Guess every now & then, we have to re-invent methods to consume information, but the yearly review does has its place – so keep this going. Very timely & motivation enough for me to get back on this list again this year 🙂
One of the best article I personally read is from farnamstreet blog
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/05/the-buffett-formula-how-to-get-smarter
( You must follow this blog if not already – he has a best of 2013 as well, each one a gem! )
Thanks Sibu for the encouragement. Yes I really enjoyed picking the tweets to feature. It was made easier by the FTOTW River page where I could first subset links based on high ratings and then select within that.
Glad you liked it.
Very nice collection , I have read more than half of them during the course of the year, It is really kind of you to share the best of year. I am trying to recollect what was the best article that I read.
Scott adams was good,
The book which I liked was Jaya and specially the ending chapter which explains how pursuit of wisdom is the ultimate victory.
Kindly do continue sharing FTOTW during the coming weeks.
Hi Sukumar,
Thanks for sharing your links. Liked all of them.
Thanks for the encouragement Veena. Yes I will be continuing the FTOTW feature for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for the encouragement Ananth. Glad you liked the list.
Interesting and most useful Harvest Indeed Sukumar…Food for the mind…Thanks for sharing…Also great to see how you learn and also apply the lessons in every walk of life profession or personal…
Thanks for the encouragement and the kind words Kavitha. Glad you liked the harvest 🙂
Good collection. Nipun Metha’s is inspiring. Especially the final quote by Martin Luther King.
Thanks Kumaran. Glad you liked the collection. Yes, the Nipun Mehta one is inspiring indeed.