Latin Essentials | Learning Famous Latin Phrases

Some famous Latin phrases explained: e.g. stands for exempli gratia and means “for example” (example sentence: The Summer Olympics is composed of a variety of sports, e.g., gymnastics, swimming, and tennis.) i.e. stands for id est and means “’that is”. (example sentence: Only one city, i.e., London, has hosted the... [Read More]

System Design

A good overall guide is the system design primer repo. (tinyurl, …) Also gaurav sev has great videos like horizontal vs vertical scaling (and sharding, …). This article contains 18 fundamental concepts for system design. The OG book about to go deeper is DDIA. [Read More]

Surf the Web | October 2024 Edition

Efficacy beats efficiency, and other tips: My favourite online mentor, Tim Ferriss, with once again a great video. I’ll watch this every afternoon, to remember the lessons, but some key takeaways: Efficacy beats efficiency. Do the right thing. Substance vs method. The magic process for efficay: Wake up, seat with... [Read More]

Surf the Web | September 2024 Edition

Some of my favourite resources of the month: This video of differences of lifestyle between $25,000 vs. $25,000,000. Searching for dotfiles, some resources here: Reading Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Scott adams videos: Greekonomics: Book reccomendations: The problem with how we measure inflation: