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My Goal for this month is nothing more than covering this book as if I am prepping for an exam

"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up. Refuse it. Rise from the dead 1000 times. Commit to never stay down & never give up. Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

Istio's service mesh (also Envoy sidecar) is another layer I genuinely need to implement. The way I am looking at it, it will definitely need me to spend some bucks

Dynamic programming is that DSA problem that truly needs time for mastery. You cannot rush it

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke explains Goodhart’s law and why he doesn’t like KPIs or OKRs “Goodhart’s law is real. The moment a metric becomes a goal, it’s no longer a useful metric… No metric by itself is a complete heuristic for a complex business. There’s a million different tensions in a company, and you can’t keep all of them in harmony by optimizing for one thing.” For this reason, Shopify doesn’t use KPIs or OKRs. But as Tobi explains, this doesn’t mean they don’t value data and metrics. “We are extremely data informed. We have invested enormous amounts of money and time into systems that give us basically everything at our fingertips… But what Shopify attempts to do is just not over-fit for what’s quantifiable.” People love optimizing for highly-quantifiable things because there’s immediate gratification that comes from seeing a number go up. But Tobi thinks that the most important aspects of a product are rarely quantifiable: “The overlap of the most valuable things you can do with a product and the things that happen to be fully quantifiable are like maybe 20%. Which leaves 80% of a value space unaddressable by the people who only look at quantifiable things.” He continues: “Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things like taste, quality, passion, love, hate… The sort of deep satisfaction that a craftsperson feels when they’ve done a job well is actually a better proxy if you allow it to be.” They then have robust analytics systems that tell the company if something’s wrong or a new rollout breaks something. “We think about it as a cockpit for a pilot. The decisions are still made by pilots, and we think this leads to better results… I think there needs to be more acceptance in business of unquantifiable things… And then metrics take a support function.” Source: @lennysan (Feb 2025)

What a goal

"Ani olowo l'aye mo"

The OG frontend skill file github.com/bendc/frontend…

A lot of folks in a lot of places you admire are really no better than you, time and chance and a bit of luck.

Happy International Day of the Boy Child. I hope we continue to focus on raising boys well, so we do not keep having these kinds of conversations about how men are failing.

The smartest people I know are addicted to learning. The stupidest people I know are allergic to learning.

Yeah good luck searching for "c" in your codebase a month from now

Getting better with cooking afang lately

Little curious why the choice of polling? I am assuming that there is room for an increased workload (> 150k), and polling easily causes more workload than SSE. How do you see the tradeoffs around the short-lived polling connection issues when operating across multiple nodes?

We saw this happen with Klarna and I think Chowdeck. I want to go out on a limb again to say that companies that have fired employees due to their claimed AI-driven efficiency gains will eventually walk back on that decision. I'll give it a year.

2012 JAMB Result Breakdown

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