Currently reading
- 🐙 Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures: on an octopus and a widow. A recommendation from my sister. I could go with more octopus narration.
- 🕰️ 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.
- 🧐 Arendt / The Human Condition: reading along with Commonplace Philosophy.
- ⏸️ Holiday/Right Thing, Right Now: on morals, through the lens of many historical tales and Stoicism.
- ⏸️ 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. 😅
Ideas stuck in my head
Is there really a way to push back on the complexity of the web? — 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 – James Clear on tackling the challenges of life.
You don’t need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right. — Lucas F. Costa on how Scrum is a hobbled version of Kanban, if you squint right.