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VSCodium binary releases of VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing

Add common linters and static code analysers in IDE and Continious Integration systems

Learning How to Learn course by Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski from the University of California, San Diego.

Kingman’s approximation states are equal to

Dan Pink elements of intrinsic motivation: Autonomy Mastery Purpose

Feedback should be based on a grading Rubricks Write feedback while it is fresh in the mind.

It always takes longer than you expect. (Even when you factor in Hofstadter’s law.)

Hasura - Instant GraphQL on all your data

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Practice [Dual N-Back 🎮] for multi-dimensional strategy. Increase APM (Actions per minute)

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

G - Goal to be achieved R - Reality as of now O - Options for action W - Will (Commit to action)

Thought when written becomes knowledge Knowledge when applied becomes impact Impact when measured becomes improvable Attempt to improve becomes thought. – nishu

Aim for burning 1500 in a week with 3x Weight for 1 hour and 2x Cardio for 20-30 mins.

Evidence-based instruction is supported by intensive research, rather than subjective case studies or untested theories. These strategies have an impact on student results that it is substantially higher than typical strategies.

Errorless teaching is an instructional strategy that ensures children always respond correctly

Denial of our emotions isn’t the only danger we face when we rely too heavily on our left brain.  We can also become too literal, leaving us without a sense of perspective, where we miss the meaning that comes from putting things in context (a speciality of the right brain)....

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

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Read Gwern’s FAQ

Distributed Systems

Regular 1on1s (Weekly) Balance motivaitional and developmental feedback

Small Teams 0 DevOps is the ideal team size in small teams. Prefer adopting the DevOps culture instead of a DevOps team. Introduce training for infrastructure and networks for all developers. Automate deployments and monitoring. Measure DORA metrics. Deploy security policies as code and continuous scanning.

official website: https://www.getdbt.com/

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

Git Gitlabber - to recursively pull all repositories in a group tree

Any material has inherent complexity based on its internal components and relations between them. The information should be presented in a way that learner can fully understand.

CDD is based on 2 psychological theories Magical Number Seven Theory Cognitive Load Theory

Security by obscurity

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. Sir John Whitmore

Variable Names

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

When we don’t know something, there are really two different categories that that lack of knowledge can be in.

Former2 allows you to generate Infrastructure-as-Code outputs from your existing resources within your AWS account.

The pay was too low no opportunity for growth felt disrespected at work

Inspire with your passion for the cause and meaningfulness Show your personal ‘why’ Customer stories The ecosystem and what you are solving. Offer problems of high complexity and long term impact. Conviction on Growth and momentum. Show real examples of success for people Projections of the growth of the org...

Reasoning Once you have calmed your emotional response, you can use reasoning and logic to think through your situation. Mindfulness - Use meditation or controlled breathing to focus. This will help you respond to a threat or stress peacefully.

The overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used