At times you are faced with hard, physically demanding goals. That is where most deep work tactics stop applying. And that’s where the word of Goggins shines.
Range — Book Review
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Being a generalist myself, I was intrigued by the book’s title when I stumbled on it during my self-motivated research on the generalist vs. specialist debate.
Fahrenheit 451 — Book Review
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I had a hard time adapting to the style and tone. It appeared to me that the author churned out the pages in a fit of passion in a single sitting.
The Arch Linux experiment
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For the unaware, Arch follows a strictly do-it-yourself philosophy. That means, you have to install, configure, and set it up all by yourself- no cheat codes and no GUIs.
The Millionaire Fastlane — Book Review
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The author’s key argument is that money earned in exchange for time is not wealth (as in a job). The only way to earn wealth and get rich is to remove time from the equation (as in business or investment)
Red Roulette — Book Review
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Red Roulette is a tell-all story of a nouveau riche Chinese millionaire about how he and his business partners had to navigate the immensely corrupt Chinese government to get things done.
Atomic Habits — Book Review
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The central idea of the book is that to follow through on a good habit one only needs to be 1% better every time.
Empire of Pain — Book Review
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The book has permanently changed how I view advertisements (most of marketing is bullshit and outright lies) and corporate greed (it’s worse than I thought).
anurock.dev
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Something interesting is coming. I’ve been working on an unorthodox method of learning developery stuff – languages, frameworks, libraries quickly and productively. The first step in that direction is to set up a video platform for content delivery and a basic companion website. Today morning I bought the domain anurock.dev. I’ve been using the “anurock” […]
Predictably Irrational — Book Review
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The central idea in the book is that although humans like to think of themselves as highly rational beings, they mostly end up making decisions that can only be described as counterintuitive or irrational.