Candost's Blog

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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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Committing to something is perceived as limiting your options, limiting your freedom of choice. But committing brings freedom. Freedom from things that don't matter. When there are many options for the same thing, we get stressed and...
Whenever we delay deploying minor fixes of software (changes in small batches), the repair cost also escalates. The minor work becomes major and requires more work every moment we delay. The increase in effort and expense is non-linear....
In large batch-size deployments, people become disconnected from the changes they made. Because there is a time gap between changes and deployments, they forget what they have fixed. And this might create new problems because if...
Big batch-size deployments lower the feedback cycle. With small batch deployments, we can get feedback early on in the product. With big batches, we wait for the deployment date. And if everything goes well, we start getting feedback....
When we have bigger-size deployments, the deployment team might seem like they own the changes. The teams who made the change can lack ownership. If the batch has a problem, who will send a hotfix? Source(s): Small batches for the...
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...
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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...

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