Candost's Blog

Candost's Blog

Candost

I used to think that reading would make me wise. One day, ten pages before finishing a book, I realized that I had read that same book before. At that point, my perspective on reading and, therefore, my life had changed. Now, I don’t care how many books I read; I take many notes, connect dots, and share what I’ve found on my blog and newsletter. I’m interested in many things at the same time (I’m a multipotentialite). On this blog, you’ll find me talking to about multiple aspects of life like leadership, software engineering, philosophy, psychology, software architecture & design, urban & industrial design, exercising, finance, Formula1 Racing, eating healthy, and many more. I’m a software engineering manager; that’s my current job. At home, I’m a writer and an avid reader. I rarely watch TV, movies or TV series. I don’t have any social media account (except Mastodon where I have automated posting of my new articles). Hence, I often miss the popular culture references in conversations. That’s alright. I don’t have FOMO; I embrace JOMO. I rarely read fictional books.

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In a manager’s life, the manager tries to immerse themselves in deep work but fails to do so and ends up in shallow work due to many meetings they can’t avoid. In everything they do, they try to restore energy that was depleted in sudden...
Nature heals all the pains, sufferings, struggles, and challenges. Watching the sunset makes you forget the daily concerns; watching sunrise can give you another perspective. Sitting idle on the beach adds no value to your life in terms...
The reason I’m sending these emails is that I’m challenging myself to write my thoughts to make sense of the world around me. Also, I know that some people have only discovered this road. But it doesn’t mean they share the same...
Recently, we were talking with a few friends about what we would do if we won the Euro Jackpot. With the same friends, we also talked about defining retirement, and in there, we tried to be specific with defining the goal for retirement...
A lot of events happen around us every day—at work, at home, in the city, the country, or the world. New movies come out, concerts are planned, and new books are launched day after day. We glance at them as we prepare our never-ending...
Any leader in a mid-to-large-sized organization has to learn how to run a team or an organization with average talent. You can't always hire the best of the best. You can't scale a team at a good hiring pace when searching for the best...
There is no place or time in the education system for learning how to manage money. Nobody gives us this crucial education besides our families, so we have to take things into our own hands (as my family is not rich, I can tell they also...
Annie Dillard He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. The things we read shape how we see the world. The books, articles, or newspapers we read are...
We should try to repay what other person provided us. We observe that the rule of reciprocation plays a big role everywhere. Almost all political environments work with this rule. We see a lot of corruption not because people are bad but...
In small favors that are often invisible, we give a lot of automatic responses. If someone cuts the line, we become frustrated, but if they first ask to pass us while giving a weak reason, we give them the place. The reasons don’t have...
Take the first step to share feedback. The rule of reciprocation can play a big role when you want to get feedback, too. Especially for the positive feedback, take the extra time to provide it in the most visible way. This favor will get...
If you would like to use the perceptual contrast principle in practice while trying to convince people, offer them the worst option first if you want/need them to exaggerate a better option and evaluate it to be better than it really is....
I've been absent from your inbox, and I won’t tell you that I was busy. I'm trying to get that word out of my life. Busyness is only an illusion we create ourselves to avoid confronting our procrastination or an excuse to leave our...
If somebody asks you how you manage your team, you have to be able to explain it to them clearly. “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” — Maslow’s hammer. That means you must have a goal, strategy, tactics,...
In my experience, my Moonlander keyboard was broken, and I asked for support to see what they could do. Even though my keyboard was out of warranty, they sent a replacement unit for free. Now, I feel indebted to them and started writing...

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