excellent collection of good books, by Guillermo Rauch, creator of next.js and founder of Vercel
Books people (re)read @rauchg
code: blog/books-people-reread.js at main · rauchg/blog @GitHub
Books you'd read more than once @ notion
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Saturday, January 14, 2023
book: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
1. The Law of Pure Potentiality: Take time to be silent, to just BE. Meditate for 30 minutes twice a day. Silently witness the intelligence within every living thing. Practice non-judgment.
2. The Law of Giving: Today, bring whoever you encounter a gift, a compliment, or a flower. Gratefully receive gifts. Keep wealth circulating by giving and receiving care, affection, appreciation and love.
3. The Law of Karma: Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. Choosing actions that bring happiness and success to others ensures the flow of happiness and success to you.
4. The Law of Least Effort: Accept people, situations, and events as they occur. Take responsibility for your situation and for all events seen as problems. Relinquish the need to defend your point of view.
5. The Law of Intention and Desire: Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. Make a list of desires. Trust that when things don’t seem to go your way, there is a reason.
6. The Law of Detachment: Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. Do not force solutions—allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. Uncertainty is essential, and your path to freedom.
7. The Law of Dharma: We have taken manifestation in physical form to fulfill a purpose.
How To Master The 7 Spiritual Laws Of Success (book's web site)
- Sunday: Everything is possible.
- Monday: If you want to get something, give something.
- Tuesday: When you make a choice, you change the future.
- Wednesday: Don’t say no—go with the flow.
- Thursday: Every time you wish or want, you plant a seed.
- Friday: Enjoy the journey.
- Saturday: You are here for a reason.
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Architecture patterns, philosophy: Christopher Alexander
was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology
in software, Alexander is regarded as the father of the pattern language movement. The first wiki—the technology behind Wikipedia—led directly from Alexander's work, according to its creator, Ward Cunningham. Alexander's work has also influenced the development of agile software development.
In architecture, Alexander's work is used by a number of different contemporary architectural communities of practice, including the New Urbanist movement, to help people to reclaim control over their own built environment.
Understanding Christopher Alexander, with Brent Ryan - YouTube
book: A Pattern Language - Wikipedia
The book creates a new language, what the authors call a pattern language derived from timeless entities called patterns.
Amazon.com: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction: Books
The Timeless Way of Building: Alexander, Christopher: Amazon.com: Books
THE TIMELESS WAY - ITALICS ONLY
It is primarily seen as a book about architecture, but is also a book about a way of life. Alexander wrote the book in a beautiful way, with one or two lines in italics that sum up the general principals of his thinking, followed by unitalicized prose that dives deeper in the specific applications to architecture and design. He suggests reading the italicized parts first, then going back and re-reading the entire book
The_Timeless_Way_of_Building_Complete.pdf
Alexander_A_Pattern_Language.pdf
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