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Dopamine

There has been a lot of confusing information about dopamine. I finally found a literature review-style article, and here is what I learned.

Life is short, a reading list

Life is short, a reading list

Reading list (to be updated) * Books * The Almanack of Naval Ravikant * Meditations - Marcus Aurelius * Four Thousand Weeks * How to Live: 27 conflicting answers - Derek Sivers * On the Shortness of Life - Seneca * Essays * Life is short - Paul Graham * The tail end - Tim Urban * Days are long

Hiragana and Katakana for Chinese speakers

Hiragana and Katakana for Chinese speakers

Chinese source/root Table あ行 (A) い行 (I) う行 (U) え行 (E) お行 (O) a あ, 安ア, 阿 i い, 以イ, 伊 u う, 宇ウ, 宇 e え, 衣エ, 江 o お, 於オ, 於 ka か, 加カ, 加 ki き, 幾キ, 機 ku

[Book Recap] The Manager's Path

[Book Recap] The Manager's Path

Re-reading this book as a reminder of best practices of manager behavior at various levels. Here is a recap. Chapter 1. Management 101 "The secret of managing is keeping the people who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds. - Casey Stengel"

[Book Recap] Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

[Book Recap] Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Notes from Introduction The first part of the book is an Introduction by the translator George Hay, which provides useful context. About Marcus: * "He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophy developed by others. As for the imperial

nanoGPT repo reading notes

nanoGPT repo reading notes

nanoGPT repo reading notes

[Book Recap] The Minimalist Entrepreneur

[Book Recap] The Minimalist Entrepreneur

I've been following Sahil Lavingia since 2020 because of his viral post Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company. I am pretty excited to read this first book from him, The Minimalist Entrepreneur. The is a recap of what I learned.