Someone in thread asked what’s big deal about him. what did he achieve

My answer would be I never tried to look into his achievements or did care about them. The man was genuinely curious, humble and a geek. He constantly published his ways of thinking. I enjoyed how he thought about things, how i could relate self correct based on it.

I generally write (intend to) about engineering work in early stage startups, MLops

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I like to take a mix of slow and fast approach. While some cases demand test-driven development, in other scenarios the test cases can follow the user demand. I like to build test coverage slowly depending on most used parts of the code. So they coverage catches up slowly but at the same time i am not spending time on test cases for things that don't get used at all.

This means, I would prefer releasing features in small batches and as the features start being used, I start improving the coverage. While this may not work for all the teams or environments, it is one approach to build early stage products. which I mostly do.

1 - Apps like Elite HRV, hrv4training or Devices like Garmin (watch), CoreSense (Elite HRV), Scosche Rhythm+, polar or garmin chest wrap.

I am doubtful that just 10 min exercise over a few years will get you in a better shape.

Another factor greatly ignored is HRV as key indicator of recovery and response to an exercise. Andrew Flatt (1) is a researcher and has been studying his cardio fitness through HRV for over 10 years. His observation is 10 sec high intensity + 50 sec break in between for 10 minutes improved his hrv. He also thinks 15000 steps contribute to better HRV as good as athlete level.

While there are plenty of questions about 10k steps, what if 15k steps do the trick?

In general, I think since HRV and VO2 max are trackable using hand-held and would be best parameters to track usefulness of an exercise over time. It is always likely that an exercise works at some point and doesn't at other. Possibly because you are more fit now or you have other life stresses dragging you down.

In my experience, a lot of these studies are not reproducible. Because every person is different and context is different too. Genetics add another layer to this. Best is to keep track of your own parameters and try things out.

References: [1] https://hrvtraining.com/

A few well-known Open source projects lack user-centric product thinking. I felt dgraph had this issue.

It's more of a culture problem.

When I realized this, I started sympathizing a bit with him. Made sure he understood what I was trying to achieve and comfortable with the code base. He was reluctant to accept new ideas but I pitched them anyway.

This is the nature of the job I realized. And it brought peace to me. I did however consider new opportunities with more freedom. But the controlling nature of the team did not bother me

I also spent lot of time studying other startups and what they did differently to win.

The founder fatigue is natural especially when we pour our heart into it. Failure hits hard. I read an interesting discussion between kapil gupta and naval. We attach our 'self' to much with the startup.

While most literature focuses on avoiding thoughts, my learning after last couple of years is - the only skilll that can help is patience. Being able to wait is the primary skill I now focus on.

Good luck.

Some book recommendations: Anything from JD krishnamoorty, why zebras don't get ulcers, extreme leadership, charles duhigg both books, power of now (mindfulness), and most important why we sleep.

Appcues started with a course

When I come across stoicism and read about it, I realized he has been living like a stoic his whole life. His way of approaching life is so aligned with the concept. And yet he has never read or heard about Epicteus.

I have been reading a lot of books about philosophy lately, but I realise the most you can learn is from people around you.

The books are often contradictory. In the exact same situation, a book titled why zebras don't get ulcers, the author claims venting out is much healthier to reduce stress. There was a study done which indicated people who vent out on the spot are less likely to be stressful (less stress harmone).

Observing how others deal with situations and picking the best out of them works out well for me.

When I come across a friend who managing a heated argument and is calm after ward, I try to learn from him. Understand why he is able to do so.

So read a paper book , take a walk, print research papers and read them when you are waiting,

The idea is to treat each of the tasks between waiting as individual task.

Edit: book mind of numbers

I think writing is no different than a startup, it takes incredible amount of time and strategy to make it through.

Gmail has a free plan but there are superhuman and hey. Both competing in paid email space.

Don't worry too much about free plan, add features that users will pay for.

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