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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Deploy smaller batches until the transaction cost (cost of deployment, cost of people and time, infrastructure cost, etc.) makes smaller batches inefficient. Big batches have other costs, such as the number of people needed to align...
Don't act, do it. When you are doing something, don't act like you are doing it. If your procrastination comes from being in motion (preparing or acting like you are doing), you need to change something. Instead of simply satisfying...
Naming the actions, especially the ones we do without thinking, increases the consciousness of the action. When we repeatedly do the same actions, we start to form habits. In Kahneman's words, our actions move to system one (conscious)...
Habit stacking is a technique to tie a new habit into an existing one. Old habits already have cues everywhere. They have certain times and places embedded in them. Our habits work with cues coming from time and place. To form a new...
"If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment." Smokers have many cues around them. They always have a reason to light up a cigarette. People cannot form new habits or stop the bad ones...
Reduce cues of bad habits. Increase exposure to good habits and related things by putting them on sight and making them obvious. Self-control is a short-term strategy while changing the environment is a long-term strategy to form habits....
If you want to learn something and grow yourself on that topic constantly, you need to keep your learning level in the "just manageable difficulty." If the challenge is too hard, it demotivates you. If it's too easy, you get bored. This...
Always spend a minimum of 20 minutes before asking for any help. Never spend 40 minutes before asking for any help. Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
If you want to climb Mount Everest, you don't start by going there and walking up. You first start in small mountains and build up your skills gradually. After you master the necessary skills and build up your body for the challenge, you...
Similar to knowledge acquiring, being confident and pursuing to be certain makes you more uncertain. The more you read and learn, the less you know. The more uncertain you are, the more you are open to learning and changing. The more you...
Writing is boring. Sometimes, when you start writing, there are many voices and thoughts that pop up in your head. They distract you by saying check social media, did you turn off the oven, or what should you eat at dinner. Think as if...
Identify and Understand the audience (the most difficult one) Create and determine the goal Discover the challenges Find the right character Bring the challenges to resolution Source(s): Unleash the Power of Storytelling by Rob...
By using E. coli bacteria, the scientists observe the evolution through an experiment. E. coli bacteria can multiply multiple times a day. In the experiment, they populated E. coli bacteria every day for 36 years while keeping their...
We can summarize the manager's job as helping people execute in the best way by clearing out the blockers and ensuring they grow while bringing success to the business. Managing a team comes with challenges. The team might face blockers,...
In our everyday life, social media bombards us with happy moments. The protection of safe zones that we created for ourselves caused us to see reality less. Not experiencing the pain, we're losing the benefits of learning how to deal...

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