5 Lessons I Learned From A Book That Advice To Steal Ideas!

Sheen Brisals
Write A Catalyst
Published in
4 min readAug 15, 2024

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It was a lazy afternoon in a rather quiet office. My colleague approached my desk to break away from her boredom.

As a courtesy, when she asked if I was free, I responded with a loud “Yes, of course” because I was also bored as hell!

When we don’t dive into technology, we passionately chat about two common topics: writing and reading. Every conversation starts with what we recently wrote, are currently writing, or plan to write. This will then lead to reading!

On that day, we were chatting about how people blatantly copy-paste content. As we ended our chat, she referred to the following book and recommended that I read it!

My first reaction was, “Wow, what a bold title!”

I wish I dared to create such controversial and curiosity-creating clickbait titles for my blogs!

I was hooked.

When I received the book after a few days, it didn’t look or feel like a normal book. It was square and small — more of a newborn’s picture book!

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Sheen Brisals
Write A Catalyst

Co-author of Serverless Development on AWS (O'Reilly, 2024) | Engineer. Architect. Leader. Writer. Speaker. AWS Serverless Hero.