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Weekly Bullet #35 – Summary for the week

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

Technical :

  • It is December and Advent of code is here. What is Advent of code ? – link here. An old podcast on Spotify’s Engineering team geeking out every December on AOC – link here
  • [A talk – 31mins ] – Concurrency is not Parallelism – “Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once.” – YouTube
  • Observability is all about Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces [MELT]. The four core metrics types explained in detail here
  • From P99 Performance conference for 2022 – the power of eBPF for performance insights — link here
  • [Book]: Opentelemetry is the second most active CNCF project, next to K8. Opentelemetry is the next standard for implementing vendor agnostic observability into any application. Below is a great report on the same.

Non-Technical :

  • The perks of High Documentation, Low Meetings work culture – link here
  • Richard Feynman’s way of taking pressure off yourself and doing something for the fun of it. – link here
  • [Documentary – 40mins] – The speed cubers on netflix – link here
  • Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver? – some great recommendations here
  • An extract from a book:

How we tend to view the worst events in History? We tend to assume that the worst that has happened is the worst that can happen, and then prepare for that.
We forget that “the worst” smashed a previous understanding of what was the worst. Therefore, we need to prepare more for the extremes allowable by physics rather that what has happened until now.

The Great Mental models, Shane Parrish

Cheers, until next time!

Weekly Bullet #1 – Summary for the week

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 :

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!