An amazing biography. The perseverance and meticulousness with Mendel performed the experiments is very inspiring. He was not the typical gifted/talented student either. He would face many difficulties at school as well as while trying to be a priest.

If I were to just pick one favorite, it is not even a contest. Heck, challenge me to pick one favorite in a decade, it would still be this. Charlie Munger! Charlie Munger: Poor Charlie’s Almanack I even wrote about this: https://krishna2.com/munger

Just like countless others, I too grew up bewildered by Jackie Chan's movies and his stunts. And I liked his autobiography.

Jackie Chan: Never Grow Up

I read "The Poppy War" - even though I liked it, I didn't want to go down a full-fledged series. I read "Yellowface" and loved it so much. I have "Babel" on my shelf - but (irrationally) I am not reading it thinking that it would be over if I read it.

R. F. Kuang: Yellowface

I can't wait for what R.F. Kuang's going to come up with next.

This is an old classic -- my son recommended this to me. I enjoyed it.

Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther

What an amazing biography. Very very inspiring.

Robin Marantz Henig: Monk in the Garden: Life of Gregor Mendel

I had gotten her "Ember in the Ashes" in 2016 or so but never got to it - but this story snipper caught my attention. What a lovely book. It is set in a Motel in a Sierra Nevada town in California. Loved the book. Promptly went back to read "Ember in the ashes". This book (all my rage) won the National Book Award for Young Readers.

Sabhaa Tahir: All my Rage

Everyone's bound to get on this train sooner or later (I think this is being made into a movie) -- 440,000+ reviews on amazon. I got curious and got this book. Liked it.

Freida McFadden: The Housemaid

I am keeping the recommendations to a general audience and hence skipping my Vedanta books (which I thoroughly relish/read and read again many times). Oh, there are a bunch of business books too, a bunch more fiction this year (than my usual ratio) including a few LitRPG and of course, some running related. As always, you can see the full list here:

https://krishna2.com/books

Here's to a happy prosperous fulfilling 2025!

Happy reading!

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Even wrote a review in case: https://krishna2.com/munger

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In every reading, there is always something new that I learn, a new perspective and new lessons that I can apply to daily life.

(My books/reading list: https://krishna2.com/books)

A twitter thread: https://twitter.com/krishna2/status/1440423443804024839 and a linkedin post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishna2_announcing-wit-a-wik...

There is also this book : The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition by Charles R. Morris

Links: https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr-ebook/...

https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Carnegie-David-Nasaw-ebook/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/Tycoons-Carnegie-Rockefeller-Invented...

There are certain topics that I am interested in but the time I want to invest is between NewYorker articles (15-20 pages) and a full-fledged market-dynamics dictated 250-450 page book. And Kindle Singles (and such sized books) fill that niche nicely. And needless to add here, am a huge audible / audio fan - so would love to see the two get merged.

Thanks & Good luck!

Another thing to keep in mind is how easy it is to install and be pluggable. I know you have designed it as a library but I think a small wrapper around it with its own http server so anyone using it can start it as a service and use http to access via JSON would be useful too. [At least everyone these days seem to do everything in containers]. And also to add, Elasticsearch sets a good bar for how easy it is spin up a search engine and get started. Again, not sure how far you must be going to make ResinDB as easy to install, to use and document and all that.

One way to get adoption is to approach a few open-source projects and non-profit orgs (or profit orgs but you might've to start out for free) and see if you can convince them to use your search engine. Once you have a couple or more, it helps in two ways. First, you can get good feedback on what are the steps that someone besides you need to do to get it in production and updates and maintenance and second, you can use them as reference customers.

Feel free to contact me via email [same as hn id but with the popular email service from another search engine out there! :)].

I think the best way you can showcase is to build a few sample proof-of-concept search engines. For e.g., How about a search engine for Wikipedia? Project Gutenberg? StackOverflow? All these datasets are freely available. You can set up a search engine for this and easily let anyone be able to verify your search engine's speed and relevancy.

Lastly, in addition to both speed and relevance is how easy it is to install, customize and extend.

Hope that helps!

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