Monthly Review - November 2020
November 30th, 2020I’m back in the Bay Area and back into my usual routine! Here’s what happened this month:
Track & Fitness
Most of the tracks in the Bay are closed now. I’ve been running at Acalanes High, about 30 minutes away from my house. Here’s an updated list of open tracks in the Bay Area! I’ve settled into my offseason training routine: Mondays and Fridays are speed days while Wednesdays are focused on acceleration. I have to be extra careful with my warmups, since it’s been cold in the mornings!
Writing
- 2020 Track Season in Review
- Bay Area Open Tracks
- Activation Energy and Productivity
- Warmups for Sprints
- Markdown Image Captions
Projects
- Pushed several changes to my website - see this Twitter thread for more details!
- Published plus-readwise - Chrome extension to push article highlights to Readwise
- Also published an iOS shortcut to do the same thing
Reading
- #saved #link Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
- #saved #link Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren
Links & Quotes
Track & Fitness
- Sprint Starting Block Settings
- Freelap Sprint Showcase | ITCCCA
- Lead Magnet - Step By Step Guide
- Keep Getting Faster on Your Own – Four More Weeks of Speed Training
- How to Improve Front-Side Mechanics and Force Production with the Wicket Drill | SimpliFaster
- Modern Hamstring Injury Prevention: A Holistic Approach
Technology, Management, and Startups
- Technical phone screen superforecasters - interviewing.io blog
- Nov. 24th, 2020 - Finish the Year Strong – Boring Startup Stuff
- Questions for our first 1:1 | Lara Hogan
- Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring in the Age of Diversity Goals: Evidence from Silicon Valley Tech Firms by Prasanna Parasurama, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis :: SSRN
- The Adjacent User Theory at andrewchen
- Why Silicon Valley has so many Bad Managers (and what to do about it)
- A deep dive into Triplebyte’s assessments
- Learnings from Keith Rabois: Evaluating and Managing Executives - Keith’s Newsletter
Programming & Design
- The case of partial hydration (with Next and Preact) | by Lukas Bombach | Medium
- How we designed Dropbox’s ATF - an async task framework - Dropbox
- Create A Newsletter with Next.js API Routes and Mailchimp – Lee Robinson
- Type Scale - A Visual Calculator
- GitHub - donnemartin/system-design-primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
- 7 Tips to help improve your Web Typography skills. | Marc Andrew
- 500 Lines or Less | A Pedometer in the Real World
- Good design | About us | Vitsœ
Personal Growth
- Downward Inflection - YouTube
- The ladders of wealth creation: a step-by-step roadmap to building wealth | Nathan Barry
- What is Mind-Wandering and How You Use it To Your Advantage? | Durmonski.com
- Clarity and Focus – Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist
Other
- Books :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy
- David Perell - Recommended Reads
- Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it - LessWrong
- Idea of Progress: A Bibliographical Essay by Robert Nisbet - Online Library of Liberty
- Free exchange - Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? | Finance & economics | The Economist
- Slate Star Scratchpad — Here Are The Nine Ways The Election Could End
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