#reading
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I recently listened to two books back to back: Trillion Dollar Coach , about Bill Campbell, and Build by Tony Fadell. Campbell mentored Fadell, so I expected overlap. But the…
Twenty years ago this month I started my CS degree. Most of what I learned there has expired. What hasn't is more interesting, and it's mostly not what the syllabus was about.…
Ron Wallace started as a UPS driver in rural Idaho in 1966 and retired 36 years later as President of UPS International, running operations in 200+ countries. His book,…
- Spec-Driven Development·2 min
I recently read Spec-Driven Development by Haim Michale, and it resonated with some day-to-day thoughts about SDD. The problem SDD aims to solve isn't new Missing, incomplete, and…
- RAG Made Simple·1 min
📚 Just finished " RAG Made Simple: The Complete Visual Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation " by Nir Diamant, and it happened to be one of those rare cases where the book…
A sense of humor is one of the most underestimated leadership skills Following the recommendation in “The Great CEO Within” I listened to “ The One Minute Manager ”. In one of the…
I finished listening to “ The Great CEO Within ” by Matt Mochary and Alex MacCaw. A few thoughts: 1️⃣ A tactical cheat sheet I view the book as a tactical cheat sheet: short,…
- Better Plotly Bar Chart·1 min
I'm reading " storytelling with data " by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. I plan to write my thoughts and insights from the book once I finish it. For now, I wanted to play with it a bit…
This quarter, I read 3 books that relate to France and the resistance during the 2nd world War - Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon. This thriller is based on Nancy Wake's story. It…
This year, I track my book reading for the first time. I don't know if I'll keep doing it after this year or if I'll last until the end of the year, but for now, I'm all in. This…
Another one bites the dust - I just finished hearing " Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less " by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. One of my chief…
I had a long day of walking around and waiting a lot, so it was a good chance to listen " Working Backwards " by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr. It was more insightful than I…
After it was mentioned in "Second Brain" and was waiting in my reading list for a long time, I finally listen to " Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation " by…
"a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”…