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Book Review: Rework

I’m not a DHH hater nor fanboy. I became aware of him by Internet chattering about his views, Ruby on Rails, moving away from the Cloud for some of his company’s products (I think?), and something about choosing JavaScript with no build system. And yet somehow I ended up getting three of his books. Rework is all about rethinking some of the common (dare I say “best”?) practices in maintaining and leading a business. Seeing and listening to someone start-ups and other business owners trying to strike it big and “moving fast”, this is a refreshing antidote to the poisonous paradigm that pervades a lot of the entrepeneurial world. ...

March 23, 2024

Book Review: Abraham's Silence

TL;DR A great book on lamentation and vigorous prayer. Just don’t get triggered by passing references to left-leaning socio-political stuff, which is very few and far between. Contents This may be a strange thing to start a review off, but I’ve always found presenting the table of contents for a book useful for any potential reader. I don’t know how many people skip the TOC or actually read it, but I find that showing it here at least gives one a bird’s eye view of what he’s getting out of it. So here’s the road map for this book: ...

January 31, 2024