Weekly Readings: Week 5
A compilation of few interesting, multi-disciplinary links from the digital space
“Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.” - Shane Parrish
So, the new year is started and I recently re-visited the things I have done last year and pretty much-accomplished milestones that I care about. the thing that doesn’t work out for me is health. I failed in many of my fitness goals and even the slight abruption kills the habits. I really need to prioritize health - Both physical and mental health over a lot of other things. Another insight is - I read lots of books in the first half of last year and just one in another half of the year. I made quite less money from the freelance work than the efforts I put in.
Coolest Thing I learned this week:
INDMoney for managing all my expenses and investment at large and buying US stocks. Bought my first US Stocks directly from INDMoney.
Section 1 - Investing & Technology
[This section covers the investing-related articles - Be it equity, businesses, start-ups, or blockchain & covers the technology-in-general, common trends in technology and languages]
What Is Sigma Computing And Why They Raised $300 Million By SeattleDataGuy
Once a Developer, Always a Developer: Tagir Valeev, Java Tech Lead in IntelliJ IDEA is been interviewed by Alina Komissarova. Insights:
Show your work in public. help the community to learn and grow.
Impulsive coding: when you have a great idea to work. leave everything and work on it.
Virtual coffee: where you chit-chat with the team on regular non-work stuff.
Section 2 - Art & Society
[This section covers everything from art, literature, Poetry, Cinema, or anything closely related to the abstract or literary world & covers the political and social commentaries, opinions, or editorial]
A Loss for Words By Judith Thurman: Can a dying language be saved?
Children born during the pandemic have experienced a catastrophic - no other word I think - drop in the cognitive development of 22 IQ points. (Twitter Thread)
Tek Fog: An App With BJP Footprints for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate Trends By Ayushman Kaul and Devesh Kumar: Brilliant interrogative investigation on an App used for digital manipulation and automate hate.
My father’s handwriting By Nabil Echchaibi: Beautiful memoir of Nabil on his father’s love for writing and how he derives that passion of his father in his writing.
Almost Nothing, yet Everything: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Poem Celebrating Water and the Wonder of Life By Maria Popova
Section 3 - Personal
[This section covers the things I discovered that can be applied to my personal life and persona.]
Follow Your Purpose, Not Your Passion By Omar Usman
The idea of being purpose driven is finding greater long-term success. This does not mean lowering your ambition. When our ambition is driven by passion or ego, we are never satisfied, and unable to define what success even looks like.
Now listening:
Infographics of the week:
(via visual capitalist: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/creative-people-routines-1200.jpg )
Update:
Have clubbed the Art + Society section into one and Investing + Technology into one.
Added an ad-hoc section to highlight the coolest thing I did, learned, or watched this week.
Changed Title from “Weekend Reading” to “Weekly Reading” and removed the date.
That’s it from my side. I hope you’ll like the series and the recommendations.
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