Currently reading

  • ๐Ÿ™ Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures: on an octopus and a widow. A recommendation from my sister. I could go with more octopus narration.
  • ๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: the thesis is that no amount of time management gives you infinite time, so you might as well take advantage of the present.
  • ๐Ÿง Arendt / The Human Condition: reading along with Commonplace Philosophy.
  • โธ๏ธ Holiday/Right Thing, Right Now: on morals, through the lens of many historical tales and Stoicism.
  • โธ๏ธ Lichtenberg/The Waste Books: turns out, witty one-liners and reflections on life look about the same in notebooks from the 18th century as they do on modern social media. ๐Ÿ˜…

Ideas stuck in my head

Is there really a way to push back on the complexity of the web? โ€” Tom MacWright on the plight of modern, full-stack software development.

On loving your fate, how to handle pressure, and the value of being proactive yet positive โ€“ James Clear on tackling the challenges of life.

You donโ€™t need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right. โ€” Lucas F. Costa on how Scrum is a hobbled version of Kanban, if you squint right.

Adam Keys @therealadam