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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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When I try to delegate a job to people, I mostly consider their skills, where they want to go, the timeline of the work, the risk of the person failing, and how mature I am at that piece of work so I can help the person. I know there are...
How Strongly I Recommend It: 5/10 How Likely I Will Gift It: 7/10 Who Should Read It? Anyone who is pulled into too many directions in their lives and wants to change the situation and no idea how. Why should you read it? I read it...
Recently, I did some book shopping. All the books are related to work: leadership, coaching, behavioral psychology, and dealing with difficult conversations. However, neither the book's details nor how I am going to read them is what I...
I was watching a video from Easy German (as I'm learning German), and they did a street interview and asked a question to the people: "How will the world look like in 2050?" While watching the video, I started thinking about how the...
If you look at the footer of the website, all my content is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. That means none of my posts can be used for commercial purposes. Not that I'm against AI or...
I've been silent for a while because I was on a late-summer vacation. During this trip, I had the opportunity to reflect on my daily routines. Those who are close to me know that I have been making some changes in my life recently and...
Today marks a day for me. After days of manual labor and a lot of editing, I finally published all my notes in my Zettelkasten on my blog. You can find all of them here. It feels like it's opening years of work to the public. Although...
Today, I've read Molly's great piece called, On Learning to Read Generously;. Here are my notes and thoughts. I am too generous with books. Instead of spending enough time with books, I spend more than a book deserves, especially for...
Recently, I walked through engineers in our team about how I take notes with Zettelkasten and P.A.R.A. note-taking methods. I also wanted to share here, without going into much detail, how I've been using both systems. Zettelkasten was...
James Clear says, "You're more likely to unlock a big leap in performance by trying differently than by trying harder. You might be able to work 10% harder, but a different approach might work 10x better. Remain focused on the core...
James Clear says, "You're more likely to unlock a big leap in performance by trying differently than by trying harder. You might be able to work 10% harder, but a different approach might work 10x better. Remain focused on the core...
Mediations Newsletter is becoming a curated newsletter where I will share what I've been thinking about recently and a few things passing from my screens, eyes, and life. The style will be between James Clear's 3-2-1, Cassidoo's...
How much time and money do we spend in our lives to make everything convenient? We optimized our lives so much that we had a lot of time to do many things. Yet, we lost the joy in them. Does everything have to be convenient? Some things...
The whole RFC process requires a blameless and trustful environment. If the organization operates with bad politics and secrecy, forget about RFCs. If an engineer doesn't trust others and doesn't believe people have good intentions, why...
Organizations should influence people to write RFCs, and the guides to writing them should be simple, clear, and concise. If an RFC template has ten sections that have to be filled, it ceases to help. An RFC template should be flexible....
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