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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 we come across information, we mistakenly think we have learned something new. However, we just learned that that specific piece of information exists. We didn't learn what that information tells us. To understand the information,...
On January 23rd, 2023, I started an experiment and stopped all my social media usage. I didn’t read anything on Twitter, Mastodon, and LinkedIn. I occasionally checked my automated article sharing to see if they had been posted...
I started Mektup on Substack. Right after the first issue, I migrated to ConvertKit, where I hosted Mektup for 36 issues, and then moved it to Ghost, where I hosted my blog to merge everything into one place. Ghost was a great host...
Recently, I read Tuckman Was Wrong by Doc Norton. It's an old piece (yes, 2017 is old now). The article talks about how teams don't go from one stage to another in the order Tuckman defined: forming, storming, norming, and performing....
How Strongly I Recommend: 6/10 How Likely I Will Gift It To Somebody: 4/10 What is the book about? (summary) The book is about OKRs (Objective and Key Results) developed by legends at Intel. OKRs are effective business measurement...
Reading books is an attractive concept that nobody teaches, but everybody somehow knows how to do it. I started reading books at the university around 2010. It's been more than ten years. During this whole time, I read whatever people or...
(Looking at the picture below) What (the hell) is that fence doing here? It serves nothing. Let’s remove it. That’s what many people agreed on without asking a straightforward question: Why is there a fence here in the first place?...
When I wrote you the last time about the myth of multitasking, I talked about our attention limit having a value of only one cognitive task. Today, I want to double-click on that attention-demanding creative task and connect it to the...
Many tenure engineers get frustrated with various small things if they have stayed in the same team or done the same job for a long time. They start getting annoyed by new people bringing not-so-new ideas that were already proved wrong...
Hey friend, This Mektup is a personal one. You must have heard what happened in my home country, Turkey. Two earthquakes took the lives of thousands of people (40k+) and impacted millions. (just yesterday, two additional earthquakes took...
There are three categories or approaches to decision-making styles in the world that encapsulate all the decision-making models. Ethical Reasoning (Good-Evil/True-False/Right-Wrong) It's conceptual reasoning. We have concepts in our...
It seems like the British had a devastating impact on Kenya. "Modernization" shows its evil face in many places. When people are forced, preached, evangelized, and convinced that their culture is not good and that they have to change,...
Sometimes, leadership introduces something and doesn't explain what they consider to be the disadvantages of the change. They often talk about the pros of a new system without mentioning the cons clearly. This situation makes it very...
Hey friend, I wrote the following paragraph two years ago in the first Mektup. Putting myself in front of many people is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Even though I’m a bit of an extrovert, it still frightens and excites me...
When we receive feedback, we might consider applying it fully or declining it. It often looks like a 0 or 1 situation; take it or leave it. Even when we try to find the middle ground, it comes down to picking up what's useful in feedback...
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