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Things I revisit books • feeds • tools

Ideas and tools I return to, kept fresh.

Books

Leadership

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Covey
  • High Output Management - Grove
  • The Managers Path - Fournier

Product

  • Inspired - Cagan
  • The Lean Product Playbook - Olsen
  • Escaping the Build Trap - Perri

Systems

  • Thinking in Systems - Meadows
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Engr Mgmt - Larson
  • Deep Work - Newport

Signal

Feeds

Podcasts

  • Software Engr Daily - Tools, stacks, and trends
  • Practical AI - How teams ship real AI
  • Exponent - Tech and strategy at exec level
  • Acquired - How companies scale to billions
  • 37signals - Running small teams that win big
  • Rational Reminder - Finance & Investing

Miscellany

Tools of the trade

Hosting & Inference

  • AWS, Azure, Vultr
  • Fly.io, LaravelCloud
  • Featherless.ai, Ollama

Mail

  • Listmonk, Sendy
  • AWS SES, Mailgun
  • Mailpit, Maizzle

Search

  • Meilisearch
  • Typesense

Testing

  • k6.io
  • Pest
  • Jest

Orchestration & Automation

  • Ansible (Semaphore UI)
  • Phase.dev
  • n8n.io 🔥

Monitoring & Analytics

  • Nagios
  • Zabbix
  • PostHog

Datastores

  • SQLite, PostgreSQL
  • Redis, Dragonfly
  • DuckDB, ClickHouse, StarRocks
  • Databricks, SageMaker

Documentation

  • Starlight
  • Hugo

Subscriptions

  • Stripe
  • Paddle

ML & AI Coding

  • Codex, Kimi 🔥
  • Jupyter, LangChain, LangGraph

Frameworks

  • Laravel, FastAPI
  • Alpine, React, Tailwind, DaisyUI

Terminal

Quotes

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... Hours, days, weeks and years of constant work and dedication." ― Roger Staubach
"The thing about life is you're born into the situation you were born into and your project is to do something with yourself once you come of age based on what you were born into and what you can do. We're all trying to make ourselves interesting, because no one came here to hide." — Bill Withers