Hello my friends.

Here's what I picked this week. Enjoy :-)

💎 Tech & Dev World

1. Against 3X Speed​

TL;DR: A story about how we try to absorb as much information as we can [because a sense of novelty and trying to prepare for everything in life leads us to do it] but this model of learning doesn't work. The author tells us why and what to do instead.

Why I enjoyed it: I was the Mike in the story.

Favourite lines:

• Mike boastfully reads 100 books per year. He listens to audiobooks at 3x speed whenever he drives and swears he can remember it all. His strategy for learning is simple: shove as much information into the mind as possible.
• Mike is so busy preparing for the future that he never steps into it.
• The smartest people focus less on consuming as much information as possible and more on cultivating the deepest possible understanding of the ideas that resonate with them most.
• The research on spaced repetition shows that listening to audiobooks at 3x speed is a terrible way to retain information. In fact, it’s the opposite of what you should do. If you want to retain information, you should review the stuff you’ve already read.
• The world rewards people who develop expertise in a specific subject. When that expertise is unique, it’s developed through direct experience and deliberate reflection.
• Newsflash: Mike is a human, not a computer. He needs time to synthesize what he reads and transfer knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. He should think more strategically about what he wants to learn and why.

2. Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?​

TL;DR: One engineer worked at a startup that was bought by a large company and now he is trying to figure out how to work in such a complex system, where a simple request to change something takes weeks instead of days.

Favourite lines:

• When they do start working on your request, maybe it will only take a few days -- or maybe you underestimate the level of effort required because you are new to the company and you don't understand the complexity of the systems you are dealing with.
• Take this as a learning experience: don't assume that you are at a startup where people will drop everything to handle a request from you right away. Instead, assume that people are dealing with a lot of other requests, from a lot of other people. Learn how the system works, and learn how to be effective within that system.

3. The Document Culture of Amazon​

TL;DR: How meetings at Amazon take place in a document-based format.

🔥 Web Development

1. ES2021 Features!​

TL;DR: ES2021 features, short and sweet.

2. CSS Custom Properties​

TL;DR: Introduction to CSS variables.

🏅 Tweet of The Week

Good question.

Ryan Hoover @rrhoover If money was no object, what would you do with your life? (be honest without virtue signaling) November 24th 2021 157 Retweets 2,263 Likes

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