Tomas Vik

The promise of this book sounds great.

This is a fun little novel about the near future where marketing rules the world.

The developer journal is a section of my knowledge graph where I try to capture learnings during my day-to-day work.

One picture is worth a thousand words.

It’s the end of a meeting.

If you’re considering reading this book, start with Going Postal.

Going Postal is the first part of a trilogy about a con artist Moist von Lipwig, the most likeable literary criminal.

Immune is a popular-science book explaining the human immune system.

Apology is Plato’s book with the best Goodreads rating.

I wish I thought about investing when I was younger.

First, you’ll read Jim’s story as a cautionary tale.

Read the story of several spaceships that contain uploaded human minds.

The Black Swan is a name for an event that is completely unpredictable.

I am genuinely excited about this book.

I’ve been taking small, permanent, densely-linked notes for over a year.

The four authors who wrote this book also started a consultancy to help resolve conflicts and increase efficiency in communication.

I’ve done it again.

Is there a link between our compensation and how much value your work creates?

This book was published in 1985 as a loose collection of stories from Feynman ’s life.

Insurance companies, like betting companies, need high margins to keep operating.

This novel is about dreams and reality.

Subtitle: “Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time”.

Find out how to retire early and think about investing no more than a few hours a year.

This was the most challenging section so far.

This short book is a good introduction to the world of personal finance.

I found this book because it was voted the best Sci-Fi book of 2019 on Goodreads.

This is another episode of my CSS learning challenge.

This is another episode of my CSS learning challenge.

TL;DR: To improve my shallow knowledge of CSS, I’m going to learn CSS for roughly eight hours each week for eight weeks.

When I started my programming career as a Java developer, my boss recommended that I read Effective Java.

I trust people.

Instead of a new year’s resolution, I’ve done a new year’s cleaning in 2021.

Reading Snuff was a bittersweet experience.

Same as in How to, it’s a pleasure to see Randall’s thought process when answering absurd but interesting physics questions.

Time travelling done right.

This book takes the watch outside of Ankh-Morkork.

Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher who spent his whole life studying ancient philosophy.

I’m at the peak of my degoogling, slowly migrating of Gmail.

The disadvantage of listening to the Discworld books in the form of audiobooks is that the uncontrollable bursts of laughter make you look quite silly.

I’ve just tried to get off Gmail.

Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us.

In the last post, I got excited about getting a pot for my birthday.

Who can mix crime novel with thoughtful discrimination critique and make it hilarious enough that you are going to be bursting out laughing?

Socks, underwear and now a cooking pot!

My generation is the last that doesn’t have their whole life electronically documented.

We have an intuition about the benefit we get from learning a skill.

This article will help you become that one person who gets their technical problems solved first.

I’ve heard about social networks censoring content, but I always thought it only affects hate speech or promoting violence.

Trilogy: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star The third book in the Red Rising Saga is a bit repetitive end you can see some of the plot twists coming from miles away.

Trilogy: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star It would be hard not to spoil the first book when talking about what happened in the second, so I’ll instead talk about some aspects of the trilogy that I love.