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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.

Latest Posts

While rebuilding a service or migrating from one technology to another, people often think about the consequences of that process. First-order thinking prevents them from having a look at why the decisions have been made before to build...
Everyone has their own rules in their heads. We interpret and evaluate situations and other people's behavior with our rules. The events, situations, and, therefore, the available data are the same for everyone. When there is an...
If you can't make a decision, coach yourself as if you're doing it for a friend. The only face we don't see and cannot read is ours. We always think about our thoughts, feelings, and intentions. But we don't focus on how they impact our...
Entries: 47-Software Architecture Styles; 48a-Fault Tolerance & Resiliency; 48b-Putting servers close to clients; 48c-The CAP Theorem; 48d-Elasticity in Software Systems; 58-Scalability in Software Systems; Related Note(s): 51a: Database...
Asking questions has two sides: questioning and curiosity. Which one are you doing? When we ask questions to people, we either question them or ask them to learn. Once we go with curiosity, the truth rises in answers. People don't think...
Dirty writes: It happens when a transaction overwrites the value that is written by another transaction that hasn't been committed yet. Dirty reads: A transaction reads a value from a write transaction that is not committed yet. Fuzzy...
In a strong consistency model, the read operations have the extra time cost of the leader asking all followers to decide if it's still a leader. We can solve this by allowing followers to read the data as well. However, their data might...
Creating an open culture starts with listening to people and addressing their problems. Many companies do neither. Some companies try addressing problems, but as they are not listening, they usually bring solutions that don't solve the...
"Being a boss is a job, not a value judgment." Many leaders mix these two and think of the word boss as something negative because it gives a superior feeling. The bosses who get carried away with this feeling begin to think they are...
26: Machine Learning & Data Science with Jesper Dramsch Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
How Strongly I Recommend It: 7/10 How Likely I Will Gift It: 2/10 📖 The Book in 3 Sentences A leader's story and learnings about creating a culture in a company as a CEO. Creating culture is difficult and consists of many failures and...
Hey friend, Happy Tuesday! I sent the first Mektup on Jan 28, 2021. In ten months, Mektup changed and became what it is today: letters to share my learnings and experiences about software engineering leadership. When I send a letter,...
Simple ideas can prevent complicated problems. We often seek complex solutions because we want to stand out from the crowd. Simple ideas are available to everyone. They are often the first thing people learn. When we want to take an...
When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi recognized the idea of flow, we finally had a name to define the pleasure we get from what we do. Many of us experience "the flow" each day; we lose all the distractions, dive into something, and do not...
25: Live Pair Programming, Open Source, and Building Communities with Nick Taylor Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
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