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Yes, I didn't expect so many answers !! I have a whole page of reading recommendations now. Just have to choose where to start.

Thanks for all your recomendations, especially the BBC documentary. I'm really interested in Gödel and Cantor.

I'll add this one to my list, thanks !

I loved this book when I read it indeed. Really comprehensive and smart.

Thanks, I had read some Feyerabend essays a few years ago. This is indeed instead thought provoking.

Thanks, I'll add the John Stillwell book to my reading list. And thanks for the idea of watching the newer "Cosmos" series. I'm always looking for ideas for shows to watch with my …

Thanks, I have heard a lot about Bill Bryson but never took the time to read it. I will start with this one.

Ideally, I'm looking at something similar to Russell's History of Philosophy but for science. I am studying the history of philosophy right now, and I'd like to complement the curr…

I went back to college and started a bachelor in philosophy in a specific cursus tailored for people with a full time job. Met plenty of fantastic people with various backgrounds.

Business & work : Deep Work - Cal Newport, Anti fragile - Nassim Taleb CNV : Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Marshall Rosenberg "spiritual" or wisdom related : Tao Te…

Hello I am myself learning React right now. I love this website : https://daveceddia.com/ He provides a free 5-day intro course which is well-paced and gives you already plenty to …

I faced the same question and ended joining a climate-tech company (www.carbometrix.com). There are plenty of tech jobs in the climate tech, you can read Climate Tech VC newsletter…

"How do they deal with vulnerability, or being wrong, or someone else being wrong?" this is indeed an excellent question. I had so many difficulties in the past with engineers who …

I deleted the app on my Iphone. I don't regret at all. My mind seems clearer, not swamped into unnecessary content curated by the algorithms. I loved Instagram because I love paint…

this is excellent advice ! it sounds much better indeed to have the candidate working on concrete problems we are trying to solve. Thanks

Thanks very useful !

I am starting the tech team in my company, and I will be leading the tech interviews. I was going for some Leetcode based exercise + some theoretical questions + experience debrief…

At work : to manage the onboarding of newcomers, to organize our weekly strategic meeting (we have a page where we share our subjects and reflexions), to organize the engineering w…

I started Zettelkasten a few months ago as I had the idea to write more, think more, and create a blog. But the system crumbled -by lack of time- as I finally ended working full ti…

I've been struggling with this same question the past two years by scaling up a machine learning team (our job was to design and put into production various machine learning-based …

thanks ;-) it seems hard indeed to find the right level of information to put in each entry(fact vs thinking) and not to overstore information

Deep Work, by Cal Newport : to focus on what matters. The talent code, by Danie Coyle : to understand the value of deliberate practice. Brain at work, astonishingly useful mixing p…

I confirm. All Cal Newport's writing (book+blog) really help to understand how our attention is hijacked, and concentrate and make time for what really matters. As far as I'm conce…

I have read a lot about Zettelkasten but I am afraid that I am going to quit after a month and not sure exactly what I am going with all the notes. Though I read a lot of books and…

reading Why we sleep, by Matthew Walker. After reading this book I decided to put sleep quality above everything and it helped me take the adequate measures. What worked for me was…