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Reading is when you take your brain for a walk.


Agree to most of it. I read somewhere that "Once is never enough". That's especially true for difficult subjects. The churns produce the juice.

how to study and learn really difficult subjects: 1. don’t panic. hard just means dense. it’s not impossible, it’s just packed. unwrap it slowly. 2. get a map before diving in. watch an overview video, read the table of contents, or skim the wikipedia page. you need context…

oprydai's tweet image. how to study and learn really difficult subjects:

1. don’t panic. hard just means dense. it’s not impossible, it’s just packed. unwrap it slowly.
2. get a map before diving in. watch an overview video, read the table of contents, or skim the wikipedia page. you need context…


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More people = less progress.


DDIA should be a part of the curriculum in colleges.

Backend survival kit. 👇

RaulJuncoV's tweet image. Backend survival kit. 👇


Its like having a very powerful and intelligent study buddy.

Sebastien Bubeck just cleared the air and honestly, it makes GPT-5’s achievement even more astonishing. No, GPT-5 didn’t magically solve a new Erdős problem. What it did was arguably harder to appreciate: it rediscovered a long-forgotten mathematical link, buried in obscure…



This Diwali, Lock in.

ProgrammerMonk's tweet image. This Diwali, Lock in.

Probably the best CS advice in a single picture. Source- teachyourselfcs.com

ProgrammerMonk's tweet image. Probably the best CS advice in a single picture. 
Source- teachyourselfcs.com

When working with / building a storage systems, I so much prefer "append only" form of writes. Makes dealing with concurrency, crash recovery and sequential writes - so much easier.


".... technical skill, product thinking, project execution, and people skills. And the more senior you get, the more you’re expected to contribute to each." joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isn…


SLO's! 100% green is great, but if your SLA is 98%, use that 2% to test in prod. Break things intentionally (maybe) and test that things will really on that rainy day.


Be it music, code, technical writings or whatever.. are you "producing" ? Some of the best advices to come back to every few months. guzey.com/personal/what-…


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I loved this advice to young programmers: "If you like programming, you should learn programming. Just be content with all outcomes." This is how I live too. Great life lesson 🫶.


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you need the founder. you need the founder there - he actually needs to be present. if the founder is gone it's over. this is why you can't invest in founders that are normal. normal people would stop pushing as soon as they have a modicum of success. you need insane founders


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