Hi All !
This is an idea that I have been planning to try for quite sometime now. A summary of what happened over the week. A weekly bullet would come out every Saturday and it would cover:
- What interesting stuff happened in Tech or Non-Tech world over the week –(Not NEWS)
- Extracts from the books that I am reading (somethings which have hit me hard)
- Resources Tech/Non-Tech that I might have come across.
So here is the First of something New.
Technical :
- Learning things when there is no one to teach. That is what this below open discussion is about. Great resourceful comments and suggestions. “Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?”
- “Java12” was released this week. It comes with “Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector (Experimental)”. Details here.
- Github resource : Multi month Study plan for a self taught Software Engineer. “Coding University”
- An amazing use of LaTeX and Vim. This blew my mind! Math notes in LaTeX + Vim. “How I’m able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim”
- I have started learning Scala recently and the following site has been very resourseful in terms of knowing existing/new packages, best practices and news letters. “Awesome Scala”
Non-Technical :
- Podcast that I truly enjoyed. This is a 32min short extract from a full episode. If I had only 30mins this entire weekend, I would just listen to this one podcast. Enough said! “Tools of Titans: Derek Sivers Distilled (#202)”
- Another one from Derek Sivers. He has a site for all the books that he has recommended with notes/summary/extracts from the books. If you want to pick your next book, dive in here. “Derek Sivers – Books I have read”
- Quote I’m pondering :
“Most of the 30year olds are trying to pursue many different directions at once, but not making progress in any. They get frustrated that the world wants them to pick one thing, because they want to do them all. The solution is to think long-term. To realize that you can do one of these things for a few years, and then do another one for a few years, and then another.”
Have a great week!
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