Notes
An unassuming place to accumulate knowledge.
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
— Ben Franklin
Contents
Meta
Motivation
I want to remember more of what I read, so I take notes to share compressed wisdom.
Purpose
This project serves a few purposes:
- log what I'm learning from reading books and articles, listening to conference talks and podcasts, etc
- consider how ideas from various sources connect to others
- keep placeholders for what to read / listen / watch in the future
- explore topics for immediate pragmatic value to purely intellectual curiosity
Workflow
I read articles on Instapaper and books mostly on Kindle or Safari Books Online. I read nonlinearly and often not cover to cover (blank spots == not yet read). I skim Hacker News and Techmeme weekly.
I recommend two macOS apps for working with Markdown: FoldingText and Marked.
Articles
Show Articles
Most recently read first
- How to Accomplish Dread Tasks
- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- How to Be Motivated: 4 New Insights From Research
- Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years
- Location Wars - Part I: History and the Problem
- I'm Not Living The Dream
- Shannon's Method: Overcome Habit Procrastination
- Working from Home and Phatic Communication
- The Zen of Limits
- Minimalism Isn't Traveling the World with Nothing
- Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity
Books
- Algorithms to Live By
- Building Microservices
- Deep Work
- Digital Minimalism
- Django By Example
- Effective Python
- Expert Python Programming
- Flask Web Development
- Fluent Python
- Founders at Work
- Getting Real
- Hackers & Painters
- How Google Works
- Idiot's Guides: Zen Living
- Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
- Lightweight Django
- MAKE
- Out of Office
- Practical Django Projects
- Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
- Pro Django
- Pro Python
- Python in a Nutshell
- Remote
- Remote Pairing
- Rework
- Risk/Reward
- Shoe Dog
- Show Your Work!
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Startup Playbook
- The 4-Hour Work Week
- The 50th Law
- The Diagrams Book
- The Dip
- The Elements of Investing
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
- The Intelligent Investor
- The Launch Pad
- The Personal MBA
- The Power of Less
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Tools of Titans
- Two Scoops of Django 1.8
- Unsubscribe
- Vagabonding
- Warren Buffet on Business
- You Have Too Much Shit
- Your Money: The Missing Manual
- Zen Habits
- Zero to One
Conferences
- DEF CON 23
- DEF CON 24
- DEF CON 25
- DjangoCon US 2016
- DjangoCon US 2018
- Female Founders Conference 2016
- Fluent 2016
- Git Merge 2015
- Git Merge 2016
- Google Cloud Next '18
- JupyterCon 2017
- JupyterCon 2018
- PyBay 2018
- PyCon 2015
- PyCon 2016
- PyCon 2017
- PyCon 2018
- PyOhio 2016
- PyOhio 2018
- Startup School SV 2014
- Startup School 2016
- Velocity 2017 - San Jose
- Velocity 2018 - San Jose
Courses
Essays
Magazines
Meetups
Podcasts
- a16z
- Python Bytes
- Simplify by Blinkist
- StartUp
- Startup School Radio
- StartupCTO.io
- Talk Python to Me
- The Lively Show
- The Minimalists
- The Pitch
- Y Combinator
Videos
Related
Interesting related projects by other people.
- Derek Sivers — Books I've Read - A collection of detailed notes from entrepreneur and writer Derek Sivers.
- GTD in 15 minutes - An illustrated & annotated summary of David Allen's popular book.
- tldr.io - Interesting content summarized in a few bullet points by people (see mine at tldr.io/tedmiston).
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent