2024 / Week 32

loving the slog

practical joy

https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/loving-the-slog?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Data Platform, as a Product - Mrunal

Data Platform from the lens of product - who the users are, what success looks like and what we're chasing

https://mrunalmendgudle.com/posts/data-platform-as-a-product

Why Are We So Afraid Of Code As A Commodity? | Figma Blog

An exploration of the problems that AI can currently solve, and where there is whitespace to go beyond that.

https://www.figma.com/blog/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-code-as-a-commodity/

There’s so much more to being an engineer than just outputting code. It’s also about knowing which problems to solve and how to solve them. It involves designing and understanding abstractions that help us reason about complex systems. It also requires solving those problems correctly and simply. The best engineers are ones who can reason from first principles about the higher-order domains they are working on without over-rotating on the nuance of a specific manifestation of that domain—a language, framework, or platform du jour. Even before this new wave of generative AI, specializing in React or Jetpack could only get you so far; nuanced platform-specific expertise diminishes in value over time in comparison to our ability to reason from first principles about what these frameworks have in common.

Healthy Living

For me, healthy living consists of sleeping well, a clean diet, frequent exercise, journaling, meditation, and socializing. Once in a while I let stress get the better of me and this causes my life to start spiraling and sliding out of control: deadlines start getting missed, emails pile up, I lose sight of my goals and life just gets overwhelming. It’s not pretty. Like any engineer, after such times in my life I do a post-mortem of what went wrong and time and time again I’ve found one or more of these crucial habits disappeared causing others to disappear in a chain reaction.

https://jon.bo/posts/healthy-living/

Do Quests, Not Goals

South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work. If you were to make a list of things you

https://www.raptitude.com/2024/08/do-quests-not-goals/