Tag: book
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I am Not a Black Belt
I am a black belt. I am a second dan (nidan 二段) Aikido black belt with the original school of Aikido, the Aikikai Foundation. I started Aikido practice in early 1997 after a holiday trip to the US. When Aikido was introduced in Brazil, it had inherited local rules from the Judo federation back then,…
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Today I have Finished Writing the Manuscript of my Book
Today is Sunday. The weather is terrible outside. I went to bed early last night because I want to get off with my bike before sun rise. But the winds were too strong and it was raining. So, no riding today. It was almost 5 when I decided to sit in the office and finish…
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The Mythical Man-Month (book)
I started reading this book by accident after finding about its existence in discussion thread on X. The title itself didn’t ring any bells to me at first look, but I decided to get it and read its introduction to get a better sense of what the book was about. At the moment of this…
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On Reading This Book (1979)
The “On Reading This Book” section of Christopher Alexander’s famous publication from 1979 “The Timeless Way of Building” is probably one of the most visionary pieces of reading guidance I have ever read on a book. It looks and feels like the author is talking to today’s audience which suffers from a limited attention span.
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Writing Books is Better than Reading Them
I’m 3 weeks into the writing of my book. What a joy. It’s much better than reading any book. It really is. No wonder there are so many books out there for us to read. No wonder humanity has produced so many books over millennia. It’s so fantastic and rewarding. I’m talking about writing a…
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Domain-Driven Design and PHP
Christian Carlos Buenosvinos — what a nice name BTW, Carlos “Good Wines” — has written this book on how DDD could be used within software processes where PHP is the predominant language. The book is with Leanpub and can be found here:https://leanpub.com/ddd-in-php I started reading it with great motivation because I only heard good comments…
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ChatGPT is an Alchemist
I’m 50% through The Alchemist right now. The last time I read it was more than 20 years ago. One of the discussions between the young traveller and the English man was about the fact that gold would start losing its value if alchemy turned to be simple. It was a hard practice to understand.…
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What Dune Chronicles Mean to Me
300 days of reading. 8 books. More than 4 thousand pages. And I’m here to write something about what Dune meant to me. It was a life changing experience. I feel like one of those people who had climbed the Mt. Everest or ran a marathon, or had finished a doctorate program. I have witnessed…