Software engineering and personal development
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In a podcast interview, the famous author and professor Cal Newport while talking about the Deep Work, he mentioned among other things that people should strive to minimize the number of context switches from one task to another, because this way we are able to save a lot of time and attention that can be invested in valuable things. Continue reading
What you are about to read might surprise you. It might break the conventional belief that is hold by a lot of us that people who are successful and performing at the top of their fields never failed in their past. We think that they are just born to be great and never had any wasted effort. However, this is far from the actual truth. Continue reading
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Everybody is looking for a shortcut. Be a great programmer in a short period of time. Become a best-selling author with a book written in two days with no prior experience. Become a millionaire without working on any project, or not having a job at all. Continue reading
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I read a post on Facebook, someone mentioned that he used to have a big goal that seemed like a lifetime achievement that he used to try to achieve, yet never took any action to do something in this regard. After breaking it into smaller pieces, he had made huge progress towards accomplishing it. He used a way of describing that initial goal which made me write this article. Continue reading
It is usually inevitable to stumble upon a certain topic that you have to learn, but that you simply do not find any compelling reason to learn it. You are procrastinating, browsing Facebook and doing everything else instead of learning it. Avoiding it will not help. Something has to be done related to it. This article might inspire you to think and tackle this. A key to open new ways of thinking and solving problems is asking proper questions. Below I have listed a few that can potentially help you in this regard. Continue reading
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A large portion of our time is wasted and we know that. However, often times we are not aware about the types of things that waste it. We overestimate the time it takes doing something, and underestimate it for some others. Continue reading
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We sometimes fall into the trap of thinking about ourselves that we are going to get better, we are going to change, we are going to not be late at our meetings, and these types of wishful attributes that we want to have. Still, day in and day out there is not a single thing done from our side that would bring us closer to those objectives. Continue reading
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I think the number one technique that should be learned about managing time is having a compelling reason to save it. There are a lot of blog posts in the internet regarding this issue of telling you how to manage your priorities in life and thus saving more time for other important things. Being so, there is no excuse for someone to say that I do not know how to manage my time. One thing that I have consistently seen missing from these articles is that they do not put into the question the emotional factors, or reasons that would be as a motivation for a person to be more productive. Continue reading
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A few weeks ago I heard the second interview with the so called, chess prodigy, Josh Waitzkin, at the Tim Ferriss Show, at which Josh mentioned something that has stick to me from that day. He said that top performers are usually people who “embrace the funk”, their type of personality and want to display their true selves from the performance that they do. Continue reading
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A few years ago a friend of mine told me that when he is trying to make an important decision, rather than just thinking about it, he used a clipped piece of paper for it. He wrote down there what where his current thoughts, possible approaches and alternatives towards the end. According to him, this is a very beneficial way of making decisions, as it tends to be a rational one and which is also based on realistic circumstances and surprising obstacles, which are often forgotten when only thinking about them. Continue reading
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