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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares. The book was quite straight to the point not too many frills.

Things I completed:

1. Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

2. The Code Book - Simon Singh

3. Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh

4. Deep Work - Cal Newport

5. Smarter Faster Better - Charles Duhigg

6. 1984

7. So good they can't ignore you - Cal Newport

8. Distributed Systems for fun and profit

9. Classic Shell Scripting

Things I partially read and hope to complete some time:

1. The music of Primes

2. Traction

3. Founders at work

4. Your Memory: How it works and how to improve it

Things I would recommend: Fermat's Enigma and The Code Book are very interesting reads if you are into Mathematics. They are both written very well and you don't need to know too much of Mathematics to understand it. On the other hand The Music of Primes started of very interesting and then got a bit too heavy for an evening read. If you can chug along I think it would be a good one too.

Of all the self help books I mentioned I think Duhiggs Smarter, faster better is the one that stands out. It is more of an analysis of various teams and people and how they got to work efficiently.

Founders at work is a long read but something that you can read a chapter independently and that's why it is under half read but definitely something to look at.

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We tried a few methods and eventually went to pair programming. But never tried the ping-pong pull requests. It sounds interesting. What gets me off for pair programming is that it's not always feasible. If the other person who could work with you is on another task you spend a lot of time try to play catch up. How well did the ping pong work?

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I did hear about OpenBSD having good support for the Broadwell series. I will give it a shot. Way too many binary files to deal with in Linux. I cannot bear that logs are now binary.

Usually someone points out that I complain about JavaScript too much and yet I have chosen to use JS as the scripting language. First the front end is completely written in ClojureScript. Second JS was chosen as the scritpting environment just to validate the product. I want to support more languages soon.

Regarding systemd I really want to move to bsd. But the last time I tried dragonfly bsd I had way too much trouble setting up brightness for my laptop monitor. Felt like the old days of Linux. But I'm keen on giving it another shot.

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