Monthly Summary: November 2019
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2 min readDec 1, 2019
Personal Highlights
- Tried the French onion soup in Lyon
- Listened to music on the home stereo
- Wrote an article for IOD
- Recorded the material for a video course
- Finished a chapter of a book I’m writing
- Visited a cat cafe in Kraków
- Ate dinner at a splendid castle in Bolzano (Maretsch Castle)
- Tried Tyrolean cuisine
- Got proposition to create another video course
- Spoke at SFSCon (thanks to Patrick Ohnewein, Luisa Marangon, Alida Clauser for hosting this event)
- Traveled in a sleeping car on a train
- Took a shower on a train
- Spoke at Code:Dive
- Got feedback regarding my video course recording
- Planned content for the next video course recordings
- Introduced my apprentice to pair programming, Docker, and C++ development
- Created a proposal for the next video course
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Books
- “ Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- “ The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom” by Jonathan Haidt
Books in Blinks
via Blinkist
I’ve mostly listened to my home stereo from which I do not scrobble tracks. The results are, therefore, way off from the actual.
Best Music Albums
- Ghost — Meliora (Deluxe Edition)
- Powerwolf — Kiss of the Cobra King (New Version 2019)
- Gloryhammer — Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Best Music Tracks
For more see Last.fm
The theme for the upcoming month
Finish the loose threads.
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