A couple of rules for reading: Do it all the time. Speed reading is a trap. It’s fake and it’s not real. You just have to spend a lot of time reading. Older books are almost always better. Classics are classic for a reason. Quit bad books. The great rule is 100 pages minus your age. You have to take notes. If you’re not taking notes or if you’re just trying to get through the book as fast as possible, you’re doing it wrong....
Learn is a term when we add knowledge and skills. Unlearn is a term when we intentionally forget the knowledge and skills we’ve learned. Relearn is a term when we re-add something we’ve forgotten before. We unlearn for several reasons. It could be because the knowledge that we previously mastered is no longer relevant, or it could be because our current job is completely different from our previous job, so we need to unlearn something irrelevant....
Because tomorrow we meet with weekend again, so I want to give a few tips when using Slack for messaging. Use schedule messages for a better weekend Have you ever been wanting to message your team, but it’s already 06:00 PM? Are you still going to message with intro “Hi guys, please just respond to me on Monday. I just want to [etc…]”? When you have an important message to share in Slack but it’s not the best time to send it quite yet, you can schedule it....
A couple of months ago I bought a book by Ryan Holiday entitled “Ego is the Enemy”. I knew this book from some content creators on Instagram. This book is about how the ego can damage us from various points of view. One of them is how ego can undermine the way we learn something. Epictetus said, “it’s impossible to learn that what we think we already know”. The problem with being a know-it-all is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy....
This is the first post in a series of #30DayWritingChallenge. I consider this article as a warm-up because it has been a long time since I wrote on a blog. Each day there will be a different topic or discussion that might stimulate me to another topic or discussion. There are no fixed rules such as how many words the minimum, or what the topic should be written. Whatever comes to mind, that’s what I’ll write....