Ramblings of a Developer
The author, Cal Newport, in the book Deep Work throws light on two types of work anyone can do: The whole book is about the importance of allocating more time from one’s work schedule to deep work and the strategies one can follow to increase their time allocation to deep work. He also discusses the … Read more
Make Time is a collection of tactics for getting the most important work done daily. It’s not about making your schedule super busy. It’s not about tactics for getting a lot of work done in a day. Instead, the authors stress on choosing 1 important work and giving that work uninterrupted time. I would say … Read more
The author Austin Kleon shares 10 ideas for a content creator creating content in his book Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. The author’s advice is relevant to all forms of content creators like videos, audio, blogs, paintings, and others. The title of the book might make you feel that the author … Read more
The author Austin Kleon shares 10 ways to make your work visible to the world in his book Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. The book is targeted toward all forms of creators be it video, paintings, audio in the form of podcasts, or writing in the form of … Read more
When breath becomes air is a book by Paul Kalanithi about his life, experiences, and his ordeal with a terminal illness. The book is very emotional, especially the Epilogue written by his wife. Tears flowed through my eyes and this makes more sense for someone who has in their life encountered life-threatening diseases or gone … Read more
Everything Is Out of Syllabus is a book by Varun Duggirala who has worked in MTV and other media houses in the entertainment and media industry. In this book, he is trying to list out his experiences, his mistakes, his decisions, and how they shaped his life whilst laying out wisdom that one can incorporate … Read more
My cousin gifted me this book which I long wished to read. This book is a collection of Naval Ravikant’s ideas, and thoughts he posted on multiple places like Twitter, his podcasts, interviews, and other places. Naval is a famous Angel investor based in the US and his interests lie in Science he believes in … Read more
“Do Epic Shit” is a self-help book by Ankur Warikoo which was released on December 2021. This is an amazing book. Very easy to read. The author has been honest and has shared his experiences so that anyone treading the same path shouldn’t repeat the mistakes. Everything that the author says makes a lot of … Read more
Murach’s Javascript and jQuery is a book useful for those who are beginning to learn Javascript and would want to try out jQuery as well. This book is divided into three sections: The first section is an introduction to Web and Javascript The second section is all about jQuery And the third section is some … Read more
I have been working on integrating with RabbitMQ to implement the messaging architecture. All the time I made use of the basic tutorials available on RabbitMQ site to wade through understanding different concepts around AMQP and RabbitMQ. Yesterday I got to read the RabbitMQ Essentials by David Dossot. Its a pretty short and totally hands … Read more