Thoughts & Life
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The Happiness Cure for Teens: Stepping Back From Anxiety
Why do anxiety and low moods happen? The Happiness Cure for Teens made me rethink how I respond to anxiety instead of being swept up by it.
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Thoughts & Life
7 min read
Reading The Autistic Brain and Learning to Work With My Own Mind
Where do my everyday struggles and thinking habits come from? I used The Autistic Brain to sort through some of those questions.
Thoughts & Life
5 min read
The Scout Mindset: Stepping Back from My Own Thinking
Other people's problems are easy to judge. My own come with excuses. The Scout Mindset offers questions for stepping back from my thinking.
Thoughts & Life
3 min read
The ADHD Advantage: Rethinking What Helps Me Focus
Poor focus is not just a matter of willpower. The ADHD Advantage made me rethink reward systems, hyperfocus, exercise, and what helps me concentrate.
Productivity & Career
4 min read
Predictably Irrational: Why We Choose What We Do
Free shipping, anchors, and the endowment effect. Quick notes on all 15 chapters of Predictably Irrational, plus a few painfully familiar examples.
Thoughts & Life
6 min read
The Attention Fix in the AI Era: Protecting an Analog Brain
AI agents make work easier, but they also keep me glued to screens. Revisiting The Attention Fix helped me set a few rules for focus and mental health.
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Productivity & Career
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Systems Performance Ch. 2: Scalability Analysis & Modeling
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Breaking free from 'just add more resources.' From Amdahl's Law, USL, and queuing theory equations to practical capacity planning based on empirical analysis.
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Productivity & Career
3 min read
Systems Performance Ch. 13-15: perf, Ftrace, & BPF Tracing
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Stop tuning by guesswork. A cheat sheet on the three legendary Linux observability tools (perf, Ftrace, BPF) for safe and surgical performance analysis.
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Productivity & Career
3 min read
Systems Performance Ch.4: The World of Observability Tools
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Moving away from guesswork tuning. From crisis tool prep to /proc secrets, kprobes/uprobes, and PMCs—here's how performance tools really work.
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Productivity & Career
3 min read
Systems Performance Ch.9: Exploring the Disk Abyss
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Don't be fooled by IOPS or average latency! A guide to virtual disk traps, bimodal distributions, and hunting mysterious I/O with biostacks.
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Productivity & Career
4 min read
Systems Performance Ch.8: File System Deep Dive
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Is the disk actually slow? A cheat sheet on logical vs physical I/O gap, cache traps, VFS latency, and benchmark pitfalls.
Productivity & Career
9 min read
Learning the HRT of Building a Great Team from 'Team Geek'
A review and takeaways from 'Team Geek'. From HRT principles to dealing with poisonous people, here is the mindset needed to build great engineering teams.