Raw Kindle notes for The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne (http://a.co/4IJLdQa) What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two...
Strongly recommended. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari (https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari-ebook/dp/B00JTCH382/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492774881&sr=8-1&keywords=sapiens) A colt can trot shortly after birth; a kitten leaves its mother to forage on its own when it is just a few weeks old. Human babies are helpless, dependent for many years...
I hated my job. I had studied finance, but hated it so much that I graduated last of my class. I couldn’t find a job and lost any hope of working on Wall Street. But I loved coding. Every night,...
A normal function Let's declare the function: javascript var add = function(x, y) { return x + y; }; Now, we can call the function using the variable add javascript > add(2, 3) > 5 If we...
It is impossible to build a system that is 100% stable, available and bug free. Humans will make mistakes. Machines will break. The internet will go offline. Sometimes you will break things that are under your control, and some other...
I recently read Turn The Ship Around (https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477376801&sr=8-1&keywords=turn+the+ship+around), an incredible book about how to give your team control instead of taking it, and creating leaders instead of followers. Here are my notes. ## What it's all about The main idea is...
At Uber, one of the most important values we always push and that took a big part in making Uber as successful as it is today, is being fierce. Being fierce is very important for teams to work together, move...
How career growth works for engineers This is not about becoming more expensive (higher salary) but becoming more valuable (having more impact) You are responsible for your own career growth. Going from engineer level 1 to Senior may come...
Common sets of principles and skills that help create quick, profound, and lasting change. What qualifies 'leaders' is their capacity to influence others to change their behaviors in order to achieve important results. It is not persuasion. ## 3 keys...
A linked list is a data structure in which elements are arranged in linear order (like an array). But unlike an array, where the order is determined by the index of each element in it, the order in a Linked...