Blips
I try to take notes of things whenever I think there are valuable tidbits. Value here means lots of things, from topics I study to vibes. Language may vary and I'm still thinking what would be the best way to navigate all these notes. In the meantime, I do hope you can enjoy small digital garden :)
- On happiness, of all things
- The second arrow is your fault
- This is water
- on stretching
- Thinking in layers
- User costs
- Network effects
- The iceberg model (levels of understanding)
- The observer effect
- RAIN for self-awareness
- The local minimum in behavior
- Data, Information and Knowledge
- Trigger, behavior, result. AKA The habit loop
- Being in authority vs being an authority
- Procrastination is related to negative feelings, not time
- Worrying about things outside your control is wasted energy
- Worrying is a rewarding behavior, be careful
- Flow state
- Anxiety is the opposite of flow
- Anxiety is what happens when mix fear with future scenarios
- Slow down to finish faster
- Subject-Object shift
- Try to understand your children
- First principle
- Asking better questions
- Seeing in systems
- The opposite of a profound truth
- An overly simple definition of complexity according to systems theory
- Simple habits for complex times
- Whispers as signal
- The Adult Development Theory
- On being an adult
- About leadership
- Negative reactions often come from unmet needs
- Everything has a bias
- Gather context around what you're consuming
- Drop books when no longer interesting
- Zettelkasten
- Farnam's on how to read books
- Site reliability and 9's
- Further reflections about coaching
- But & Therefore for building narratives
- Summary box for writting
- Sobre o fim do mundo
- Free yourself from living under the tyranny of the faceless other
- Change life and make it better
- Immitate first, innovate later
- Islands and Bridges for writing
- DDD - Event Sourcing
- DDD - Domain Events
- Look for things that do not make sense
- Quarterly learning cycles
- The pareto principle
- The barbell strategy
- The mystery box
- How to keep your stories engaging
- On crafting story begginings
- Every story takes 5 seconds to tell
- Tools to craft stories
- First Last Best Worst
- DDD - Invariants
- DDD - Value objects
- DDD - Entities
- DDD - Aggregates
- The big ball of mud
- DDD - Subdomains
- DDD - Context mapping
- DDD - Event Storming
- DDD - Interaction with external bounded contexts
- DDD - Ubiquitous Language
- DDD - Bounded Contexts
- Problem Space VS Solution Space
- Strategic Design around Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Tactic VS Strategy
- SCRUM focus on knowledge acquision
- Good design vs Bad design
- On remote work
- Diversity and inclusion at tech companies
- Engineering or Manager pendulum
- Career progression frameworks
- About being an individual contributor versus being a manager
- Dual career ladder
- Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
- Approaching problems with 5 whys
- Nurturing a culture of talks within a company
- How to avoid work stress to take over
- L-Mode and R-Mode
- The Stoic Trichotomy of Control
- The Stoic Dichotomy of Control
- Stoicism in the workplace
- Information circulation within a company
- Scope VS Resources VS Time
- Hidden complexity in software projects
- Brook's Law
- Productivity decreases as the company grows
- Post-project decompression
- YAGNI
- Software development pragmatism
- When there is too much attention on your project (The Eye of Sauron)
- Impostor syndrome