Blog, Page 73

In March 2016, Josh and I each took $2,500, put it in a bank account, and filed the paperwork to found Gruntwork. That $5,000—the minimum you need to open most bu...

An interesting read on the importance of “grit”—a combination of passion and perseverance—to success in life. According to the book, your “grit score” does a bett...

Wow. This book is massive in scope, but still manages to have a high density of profound ideas. It jumps all over the place—history, science, biology, religion, g...

A nice read on the research behind introverts and extroverts. I’ve been an introvert my whole life and wish I had found this book long ago. At this point, I’ve al...

The good It’s a decent mystery story There are several fun characters The writing is OK It’s fun to “hang out” with the lead character, John Corey The...

As promised, this is a nice, quick, bare-bones intro to Kubernetes. You’ll deploy some Docker containers in Pods, create Services, work with ReplicaSets, DaemonSe...

This book is a list of 99 common thinking errors and cognitive biases. Some of these you’ve probably heard many times before, but many will likely be new. I found...

The good Terrific world building. You really get sucked into the world of 17th century Japan. A fun look at the culture of Feudal Japan. I suspect much of i...

I was excited to read this, as I was hoping that studying the design process would help me become a better designer. Unfortunately, the book wasn’t particularly i...

I don’t know a great deal about economics or finance, so for me, this book was a mixed bag. Some parts were interesting, some parts were boring, and I often wishe...