Notes to self

Stanford lecturer and entrepreneur Graham Weaver said this about getting unstuck: If you are stuck in a rut, answer these questions.

Watched a video by Graham Weaver where he gives a “last lecture” to the graduating class of 2024 at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he talks about what keeps us blocked from making progress on our dreams.

My previous post about retirement was written by AI.

It’s been over a year since I quit my job.

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the first habit from the group “Private Victory” is “Be Proactive.”

Andrej Karpathy recently gave a keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco and he called it “Software Is Changing (Again)”.

Move Slow and Fix Things: The author argues that moving slowly doesn’t mean you can’t make quick decisions.

Staying Relevant in the Tech Industry: Adaptability is key to thriving in tech.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years: This timeless blog post by Peter Norvig will continue to inspire software developers for years to come.

Team Topologies – Book Review: Dave Farley reviews the book “Team Topologies” by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais.

Pressure to Merge: How often does the team discard a set of changes and go on to solve the problem a different way because of the discussion in the code review?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin delivered a lecture in Peking (now Beijing) about happiness on 28 December 1943.

If you always wonder why managers won’t let you refactor, let us understand the reasons behind the decision.

Untutored minds are very prone to mistake inferences for observations, and prepossessions for facts; their observations and their judgments are alike vitiated by dogma and prejudice; they do not seek to investigate, they seek to prove.

Eliud Kipchoge, one of the running greats, shared the following advice with runners and others, on a podcast.

Reaching a goal or successfully executing a plan — one thing they have in common is that they need us to make progress.

Recently I came across a nice tip in the book “Indistractable: How To Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life” by Nir Eyal.

Growing up, with no computers around me, the only way to know the definition of a new word was either to ask around or use a dictionary.

Yesterday, I attended a roadshow by Google Cloud at the Novotel Hotel in Bellandur, Bengaluru.

In the world of software development, incidents and issues happen all the time; sometimes major ones but mostly minor.