Weekly Bullet #33 – Summary for the week

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Technical :

• A few interesting and hidden features of Python – link
• Below are the BCP tools that can be used for digging in to Performance analysis of memory parameters on a Linux machine. More in BPF Performance Tools book by Brendan Gregg.

• How does Database indexing work? – here
• How to get the most out of your 1:1s – here
• At around 8-10years of experience, career branches in to either Engineering management or Technical Staff Engineer. Here are a few stories of Staff Engineers and their journey.
• [Self-endorsement]: A tiny 50lines of code tool for getting my highlighted quotes from my Fav books – here

Non-Technical :

• [Highly recommended]: First-principles thinking is a competitive advantage because almost no one does it. More here
• The importance of annual health checkup – Seema’s True story of battling cancer – here
• I always thought about a social platform but based on Books. Booqsi is trying to do the exact same. It is still in early beta though. More details here
• A website that removes things from images in seconds- Magic Eraser 
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Book Summary – here
• Podcast : Hugh Jackman – on Daily routine, intuition, meditation, decision making and more. link
• A quote that the struck right chords:

“If you are not willing to take responsibility for your situation, you cannot use your situation as an excuse either.”

Cheers, until next time!