Started: 2018-03-11 Finished: 2018-03-13 Imagine the school bum, mending his ways, becoming a success and then sharing his stories and experience. Well, that’s what this book is. A pithy summary for a pithy book. Punchy, wise and brief. Mark Manson is the Dale Carnegie for millenials. There are f*cks strewn galore, so if you’re not comfortable with such language, stay away.1 Here’s a few things, I took away from the book ...
TL;DR? It’s awesome. Buy it right now. I was looking to dip my toes into some sort of structured help with the summer training and open source in general, because while I knew what I wanted, I just didn’t know how to go about it. And then I realised that one of our mentors had actually gone and written a whole book on the how to. So, I bought the paperback. The binding is really good, the paper really nice (unlike other tech books I’ve read) and the words large enough to read. I expect to get a lot of use, out of the book. ...
Updates: Much better at gtypist lesson Q1 Also automated resizing and compressing my gtypist screenshots via an Automator folder action Done with Chapter 9 of the Lutz Book. I now know of tuples and strings   ---
I’m a big fan of Shane Parrish’s, The Knowledge Project. Last night, I finished Episode 35, with Robert Green. If you have trouble figuring out how to read, or take notes, and synthesize what you learn, go listen to how a master does it. (Spoiler, it’s pretty low tech) Take what he teaches and adapt it digitally if you want. Robert taught it to my favorite Stoic author, Ryan Holiday who’s given a good description of it, here in his Medium post. And if you really want to get into the weeds, Ryan breaks it all down here, in along post replete with photos ...
It’s taken me 50 days to somehow figure out a way to study. I still feel like Sisyphus. But I realise now, that I have the map. The land isn’t large and unknown as I feared earlier. I just need to keep my head down and take it step by step. Updates: 09.45 – gtypist improves slowly by the day. Getting better, yet stretching 14.15 – vim moves ahead well!
I’ve been moaning and bitching the past couple of years about how smart I was in my teens and how I could learn any darn thing I set my mind to, then. My school grades did not reflect it though. And these days, my consulting solutions have been top notch, and yet, I struggle to sharpen the saw. What gives? It struck me today, as I finished watching some Python videos along my struggling Python journey, that I was understanding the concepts much better than I had in the past few months. ...