Notes on what I've been reading.

The Champion’s Mind

How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive

Jim Afremow, 2013

A sports-psychology handbook read from the wrong side of an Ironman build: 250 pages that could have been 80, but the 80 are good.

Accelerate

Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, 2018

What 23,000 survey responses actually say about high-performing engineering teams — and why the answer turns out to be culture rather than tooling.

Database Normalization Forms and all that Jazz

Personal introduction to RDBMS Normalization Forms with a taste of Formula 1

Doughnut Economics | Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Kate Raworth retires growth-at-all-costs and replaces it with a doughnut: a social floor, an ecological ceiling, and the safe space in between.

Think Again | The Art of Changing Idea

Personal summary of the book "Think Again", by Adam Grant

Some of the most influential articles ever written

A short list of papers and essays that changed how a whole field thinks — the ones I've actually read, with the PDFs attached.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt, 1963

Notes on Arendt's report from the trial, and on why people keep getting "the banality of evil" wrong.

Science and Complexity: a XXI century perspecive

Review of one of the most influential papers in the history of science.

Why Citizen Kane is Still Relevant Today: A Non-Specialist's Perspective

Citizen Kane, some personal considerations

Why I started my own blog... and why you should do it too!

Some considerations after my first few weeks of Blogging