October 2019 stats
01 Nov 2019
The end of the year has snuck up on me, so it’s time to measure and focus on my goals.
Books 📚
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░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ Progress 48 - 77%Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░ Progress 0 - 80%The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░ Progress 0 - 68%Courses 🎓
░░░░░░░░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress 68 - 100%Productivity Masterclass: Create a Custom System that Works
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress 68 - 100%Movies 🎬
- Watched 9 movies
Music 🎵
- Listened to 950 songs (Prev. 960, -17%)
- Listened to 803 separate songs (Prev 788, -10%)
Top Artists
- HVOB
- Mura Masa
- Rex Orange County
- Nero
- Run the Jewels
Top Track
I Don’t Think I Can Do This Again by Mura Masa (10 plays)
Meditation 🧘♂️
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23 days (+8%)Exercise 💪
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5 workouts & 6 runsFood for thought 💬 (Quotes)
How do you become stronger, smarter, faster, healthier? How do you become better? How do you achieve true freedom? There is only one way. The way of discipline. — Jocko Willink
The scariest moment is always just before you start. — Stephen King
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle (not really)
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
— Chinese Proverb
Recommended articles 📄
6 weeks: why it’s the Goldilocks of product timeframes
Process for a product team can be suffocating, or process can be liberating. And no process at all? Well that’s fun for maybe a week or two before everything starts to fall apart.
What does ‘living fully’ mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense
Inspirational quotes of dubious provenance are just one of the ways in which social media sells a warped vision of ‘living fully’.
The 5-Hour Workday Gets Put to the Test
A German startup cut its working day from eight to five hours, combined it with discouraging small talk, banning social media and leaving mobile phones in bags. Output levels didn’t change.
Breaking down barriers between designers and developers
You may call yourself an Agile team but if developers are still the last in line and thought has the implementers — you are working in Waterfall.
People Who Try To Be Environmentally-Friendly By Buying Less Stuff Are Happier, Study Claims
To understand how our consumer choices affect our well-being, Sabrina Helm at the University of Arizona and her team looked at the “culturally entrenched materialistic values” that influence millennials.