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How to use this

• A leader creates ==clarity== where there is none
• enabling others - it's the whole gig
• model the behavior you want
• gratitude journaling
• LEARN: OKRs and figure out the milestones needed via data and then being able to measure the actual impact

Raw notes

your work is now about enabling everyone around you.

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Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups self rising flour
• 1 stick butter
• ½ cup water
• 2 cups sugar, divided
• 4 cups peaches, peeled and sliced
• 1 cup milk
•  ground cinnamon, optional

Directions

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Ch.1

data intensive apps are built from building blocks:

• db - store data to find it again later
• caches - remember res of expensive calculation
• search indexes - allow users to search via keyword or other ways
• stream processing send msg to another process to be handled async
• batch processing - periodically crunch a bunch of accumulated data.

questions for designing systems

• how do you make sure data remains correct and complete, even when things go wrong internally?

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1. Boil 2 eggs
2. Cut one ear of corn
3. Make a big bowl with 1/2 spinach and 1/2 butter lettuce (or spring mix)
4. Pan fry 2 pieces of bacon crispy, let sit out to harden afterward
5. Toss all bacon grease except leftover in pan, cook corn in it
6. Cut up 1 avocado and crumble bacon over salad
7. Slice eggs to desired thickness and put in salad
8. Make dressing and pour over salad: 
   • 2 tbsp Honey
   • 1/2 cup of Red wine vinegar 

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State

'clear the clutter in our heads and our minds'

Invert

• we're evolutionarily wired for 'easy', embrace it
• Carl Jacobi, Mathematician - "one must invert, always invert" ^ transform a problem into a different representation to make it easier to work with

just asking, "what if this could be easy?" is a simple way to reset your thinking

choosing an indirect approach - for a really difficult task (as opposed to hitting it head-on)..how do you do this in practice? Consider strategy before doing aka "how should I approach this for ease?"

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Combined guide from reading https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf and How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler.

1. Decide how much time you'll spend

2. Have a purpose and a strategy

why you're gonna read it and how you're gonna do it

• Who is the author?
• What are the book’s arguments?
• What is the evidence that supports these?

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Notes taken from reading How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler.

"Knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We don't have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of our understanding." - p.4

"Reading is a complex activity that consists of several acts, all of which must be performed to be 'good reading'."

Levels of Reading

1. Elementary - "what does the sentence say?"

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Notes from Putting An Age-Old Battle To Rest

Traditional rules of simple code design:

1. pass its tests
2. minimalizes duplication
3. reveals its intent
4. reduces the number of classes/modules/packages

^This is put in order of importance. Now some have argued over the order of 2 & 3, because when you're doing one you're doing the other...these 2 rules inform each other in a rapid feedback cycle.

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React Performance

Notes From Steve Kinney's "React Performance" Frontend Masters Course

General

re: optimizations: "Start with a problem first, then solve it. dont go looking for problems."

"measure first before you optimize for performance. And then measure again."

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Notes from Typescript Fundamentals (FE Masters)

Reference: https://www.typescript-training.com/

Dictionaries

TL;DR: An object which stores objects/arrays by key

Sometimes we need to represent a type for dictionaries, where values of a consistent type are retrievable by keys.