Category: Book Review
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Four Thousand Weeks
A book by Oliver Burkeman. The premise is that we all have roughly 4000 weeks to live, and that we should savor every moment, instead of constantly worrying about the future. That’s not to say that we should disregard future problems like climate change and perhaps more personal matters like family planning and health. Instead […]
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Think Again
Summary points on the book Think Again by Adam Grant Treat your opinions as a hypothesis instead of a fact, and be prepared for your hypothesis to be refuted Identify yourself with values, not opinions Actively seek out conflicting views points to your opinions Don’t confuse competence with confidence Enjoy being wrong Learn something new […]
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Exercised
Throughout my life, I’ve always maintained health to be of paramount importance, even surpassing career aspirations as a need. A healthy body predicates a healthy mind, which is the ultimate derivative of everything else. Even though I would self-proclaim to be knowledgeable about most things fitness, this book has expanded my knowledge even more, which […]
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PHP Security
A reference book that gives snippets on how to secure your PHP application Input Validation Possible input abuses: Input of metacharacters (e.g. [! $ ^ & * ( ) ~ [ ] \ | { } ‘ ” ; < > ? – `]) Input of the wrong type of data Input of the wrong […]
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History of Work
A Social Scientific study about how humans evolved over the long years with regards to doing “work”. When we talk about work in the modern age we typically think about it as labor, either physical or increasingly mental as we shift to white collared workers, that we perform in exchange for money, which is an […]
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Inequality
A view of inequality through the lenses of Singapore. What I took away most from this read was the the hidden presence of inequality all around us. Despite the majority of us being suddenly propelled into a relatively massively wealthy state compared to our fore-fathers, not all of us has benefited from this income-class migration. […]
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
This was an Okay-ish book, and it had nothing to do with designing any applications. Instead, it gives you a very detailed tour about how distributed systems work, and their fault-tolerance technologies. In each Chapter, I’ll list down points I found important Chapter 1: Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Application Reliability: Systems work correctly even when […]
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Threat Modeling
Summary of the book: https://www.amazon.com/Threat-Modeling-Designing-Adam-Shostack/dp/1118809998 Overall a superb introduction to the activity of performing threat modeling of software. Although, some chapters do feel like filler content, and the crux of the topic lies in a handful of chapters. Threat Modeling of the System The purpose of threat modeling is to elicit the possible attacks that […]
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Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership
Summary of two books: Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership. In the first book, it covers on the principles of Extreme Ownership, which is to place a lot of agency and responsibility onto yourself. In the second book, it talks about the challenges and balances one must take to be a successful leader. Extreme […]
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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
This book talks about the geopolitics surround hacking and nation state motivations. Its really interesting because you get to understand some of the mindsets and motivations a state, or an activist group has when performing a cyber attack against another entity. The book neatly segregates the motivations into 3 sections: Shaping, Signaling and Shaping Shaping […]
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