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I believe is using the tech and apps for remembering what I read. I recently started using Readwise app for getting all my important sections from different books into daily dose of reminders. It works well. I also use Notion for auto syncing of book highlights.
I don't think it's fair to eliminate technology from reading. Use it for your advantage.
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
Gave me a wider perspective of things. Should have read it much earlier.
https://performanceengineeringin.wordpress.com/
I am a Performance Engineer and I mainly write about : - Tools/profilers required for monitoring Performance of code. - Basic concepts for Performance tuning of the code. - Interesting resources that I come across in the field of CS.
The Unix Programming Environment was eye opening for me!
For a quick understanding of the power of awk :
https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little...
"Extreme Ownership" - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin : This is an amazing book which will make you stop complaining no matter what. It's all on you to make it better. Such an amazing book which changed my perspective on external world dependencies. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownersh...
"Tools of Titans" - Tim Ferriss : This book can be seen a summary of 15 most popular non-fiction books. There are a lot of guests in this book with a diverse back ground. There is wide wisdom you can pick on every page of this book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31823677-tools-of-titans
Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg. It is an amazing book for every performance engineer.
Brendan Gregg: He is a performance engineer at Netflix. Has great content regarding performance engineering and tuning.
https://www.youtube.com/user/brendangregg
Raymond Hettinger: The contributor of collections module in python. Amazing content.
Raymond Hettinger Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRVdut2KPAguz3xcd22i_...
Absolutely. I had a hard time going through Python documentation during the early days.
Any music that blocks me from external noise but at the same time doesn't distract me. Anything without lyrics is best but I have found Classical Piano works the best for me.
Children watch 2.6 hours if TV / day ? That sounds too much!
Idea : Saving all the git and stackoverflow searches made during the day.
Thought : We hit Git or stackoverflow mainly to check up on something that we don't know about. Saving all these searches is something to begin with . Making sense of all the data by the end of a month is something which I have work on next. Else it will all turn in to dumps of "never seen again" data. Basically, having an overview of all new topics searched and digging in deeper in to interesting topics is the idea.
The Fountainhead. Makes me a better person Everytime.
The problem with reading on phones is there is always some notification which will find its way in to the phone. I tried it myself but not spend more than 15 mins getting back to the notifications.
I think kindle is a much better way to address the issue.
Shell scripting. I did not realize how powerful it is until I only started with it.