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Stillness Is the Key

This is the second Ryan Holiday book I’ve gone through recently alongside Discipline is Destiny. I’m really starting to enjoy Ryan’s writing style. Holiday provides us with well researched examples of historical figures living out the psychological principles he presents to us. It makes for a really enjoyable combination of self help and history. I usually get the audio versions of these books which are read by Ryan Holiday himself. I find Ryan’s cadence to be inspiring and motivating.

Cringey but True How Uber Tests Payments

Here is a great article about testing and deployment strategies used at Uber. https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/cringey-but-true-how-uber-tests-payments I can really appreciate this story as someone who has done this despite facing criticism from both engineers and management alike. Production issues will arise regardless of how awesome your testing environments are. If you can detect and resolve quickly in isolation you will improve the aura of stability for the majority of your customers.

Cool Reads! World Order

If you care to dig deeper into the history and strategy employed by the worlds largest power brokers, a good primer is World Order by the late Henry Kissinger. Check out my full notes here: https://cc4m.net/books/world-order/.