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#Reading
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Reading Notes on Reinventing Organizations — Why Pyramids Fail and How to Build a Self-Driven Team
A reading note on the illustrated introduction to Reinventing Organizations (Teal). Tracing organizational evolution from Red to Teal, this article unpacks why pyramid structures break at scale, what genuine delegation looks like, and how a rookie team lead can stop accidentally killing intrinsic motivation.
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The Art of Spending Money — Invisible Value and the Real Wealth Called Independence
Reading notes on The Art of Spending Money. The book frames the real value of money as the gap between what you have and what you want, and argues that invisible value — not visible status — is what generates happiness and independence. I tie its core ideas to my own habit of paying with gratitude toward the people behind a product or service.
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Thinking 101 — Fluency, Confirmation Bias, and the Opposite Question
Reading notes on the Yale intensive lecture-based book Thinking 101. Five concepts that sharpened how I form and test hypotheses at work: fluency-driven overconfidence, why plans are always too optimistic, confirmation bias as a survival strategy, and the surprisingly simple technique of asking the opposite question.
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From Funeral to Adventure: A Manager's Real Art of Asking
A manager's words decide if meetings feel like funerals or adventures. From The New Art of Asking: expedition mindset, four rules, the see-build-ask cycle.
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Anything But Absolute Yes Is a No — Essentialism in Practice
Essentialism: anything but absolute yes is a no. The pickle jar, sleep as the foundation of mastery, and the courage to stop. Applied to engineer life.
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"Essentialism" and "Effortless" — The Two Wheels of What to Do and How to Do It
Reading Essentialism (what to do) and Effortless (how to do it), I explored how to focus on essential tasks and build systems to make them easier. Applying the Pickle Jar Theory, 10,000-hour rule, and broaden-and-build theory to engineering work.
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"Black Box Thinking" — Life Is Too Short to Experience Every Failure Yourself
Reading 'Black Box Thinking' revealed how ego blocks learning from failure. I explore the mechanisms of self-esteem-driven denial and how engineers can build systems to detect, report, and leverage failure.
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What Money Really Is — Connecting People
An essay on what money really is. Money has no inherent value; it pays for human labor. With Zimbabwe hyperinflation, an engineer view on why value attaches.
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What Reading Gave Me Wasn't Knowledge — It Was the Habit of Thinking from Multiple Angles
The greatest value from reading isn't the volume of knowledge gained, but the ability to interpret things from multiple perspectives. Here's how the self-questioning habit cultivated through reading benefits code reviews and requirements analysis.
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"No Effort Goes Unrewarded" — How the Concept of Accumulating Luck Changed My Work
I used to believe some efforts are wasted. A single book changed my definition of effort: time spent for others accumulates as luck. Here's how this shift transformed my approach as an engineer.