Re: [silk] Books and libraries

2014-11-03 Thread Alok G. Singh
Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com writes: Anyone on this lists borrow books regularly from libraries in Bengaluru ? I still frequent Eloor (Infantry Road). They are a bit old-school and not as easy as Just Books but if you like that sort of thing, it's a good nostalgia fix. -- Alok This

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

2014-11-03 Thread Nikhil Mehra
Just hearing that Eloor is still around is a massive nostalgia fix. Thanks! On 3 Nov 2014 16:06, Alok G. Singh alephn...@gmail.com wrote: Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com writes: Anyone on this lists borrow books regularly from libraries in Bengaluru ? I still frequent Eloor

Re: [silk] We Are All Confident Idiots

2014-11-03 Thread Dave Long
While I agree that we're fortunate that society is set up so that things more or less work despite widespread ignorance and overconfidence (I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art, Peter Principle, etc.) there's a different issue which (at least my skimming of) the article didn't