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Things I revisit books • feeds • tools

Ideas and tools I return to, kept fresh.

Books

Leadership

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

Product

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

Systems & Miscellany

  • Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
  • Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson

Signal

Feeds

Podcasts

  • Software Engr Daily - Tools, stacks, and trends
  • Practical AI - How teams ship real AI
  • Exponent - Tech and strategy at exec level
  • Knowledge Project - Systems & decision-making
  • Acquired - How companies scale to billions
  • 80,000 Hours - Career strategy with global impact

Miscellany

Tools of the trade

Hosting

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Digital Ocean
  • Fly.io
  • Featherless

Mail

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

Search

  • Meilisearch
  • Typesense

Testing

  • k6.io
  • Pest
  • Jest

Orchestration

  • Ansible‑Semaphore
  • Phase.dev

Monitoring & Analytics

  • Nagios
  • Zabbix
  • PostHog

Datastores

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

Documentation

  • Nextra
  • Starlight
  • Docusaurus
  • Hugo

Subscriptions

  • Stripe
  • Paddle

ML & AI

  • Ollama, vLLM, Open‑WebUI
  • Jupyter
  • LangChain

Frameworks

  • Laravel, FastAPI, Textualize
  • Alpine, Svelte, Tailwind, DaisyUI

Mac & Terminal Setup

Quotes

“Complexity shouts, ‘Look at me!’ Simplicity whispers, ‘Did you notice?’ … After the initial amazement is gone, it’s the function that quietly does the job that most people need.”
— Kyrylo Silin
“You can’t compare your achievements to anyone else’s, because you have very different stories, and your life’s canvas isn’t finished. You’re still writing your story, so don’t judge it as a finished work of art yet.”
— Kusibe Iyaomolere
“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.”
— Paraphrasing Bill Withers