This is being rich
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Erin Meyer, “The Culture Map“ (★★★★☆)
As a software engineer, in the last 25 years, I have worked with many other engineers worldwide, from India or Japan to EEUU or Brazil, including all around...
Drive
Some days a good colleague of mine asked me something like: “How do you manage to do all those things?” and that got me thinking. I do not do many things. In...
Sally E. Shaywitz, “Overcoming dyslexia” ★★★★☆
The book is a explanation of dyslexia with great detail. It covers history, detection, and actions to take to mitigate this incapacity’s effects. But it repe...
Douglas Comstock, “The Mental Toughness Advantage” ★★★★☆
I wasn’t expecting to get so much from this book. I like that it treats the topic from many perspectives, some of which were familiar and dome others not. It...
Daniel H. Pink, Drive (★★★☆☆)
This is the second time I read this book. Like this first time, I did enjoy the book, but it brings nothing new or helpful. I did not take any notes or gain ...
Jason Fung, The Complete Guide to Fasting
I have been doing intermittent fasting for more than two years already, but I never did more than 24 hours. I was Ok doing between 16 to 18 hours every day. ...
Lisa Damour, Untangled
This book is like a manual for teenager parents, and I know I already said this in my previous review of the book “Voice Lessons for Parents”. I learned a lo...
Eric Barker, Barking up the wrong tree
It is a lovely read, with a caveat: it is way too packed. It feels like a summary of the other many books that I have read. It doesn’t focus on addressing a ...
About deliberate practice
As professionals, we are all day practicing our skills. We work with the intent of solving issues and design solutions, and we slowly become better at it. If...
Michael P Nichols PhD, The lost art of listening
When I got the book, I was thinking of how someone could write a three hundred pages book about how to listen. I sounded weird, but I was interested in the t...
Recording a video journal
Having a physical and digital Journal is lovely. Complementing it with audio recordings was even better. But two years ago, I thought that I could go beyond ...
Writting a journal
I do keep a journal. Well, two. Ok, I’ll explain.
Wendy Mogel, Voice Lessons for Parents
Lately, I have been reading a lot about parents and kids. At the moment, I have a teenage daughter and a 9-year-old son. And I want to have as much informati...
A new beginning to my blog
Reviving my blog was planned since the beginning of the year, but was always postponed for more “important matters.” But finally, after taking some days off ...
Am I a 9 to 5 developer?
The habit of questioning everything is essential, and this question is easy to answer for me. I’m not.