A dummy’s summary of the book explaining Netflix’s culture — “It was not obvious to me at the time but we had a culture that valued people over process, emphasized innovation over efficiency and had very few controls.” — Reed Hastings CEO Netflix This book is essentially 6 points: Work only with the best. Everyone must give each other feedback—a framework to keep surpassing yourselves, improving…

Here’s 3 ways to get through it — from Factfulness by Hans Rosling — This book is written by Hans Rosling — a doctor, statistician and science communicator. Look at him go here: The thesis is that our world view froze 60 years ago in the west, and we need to learn new methods to understand facts. First things first The book makes you take a…

My background is js. It’s where I feel at home. I am working in python lately and generally am finding it good (great number of packages — especially in data science and ML — with good tutorials) but the environment system, imports, package management etc are not as intuitive or…

Confucius, Laozi, Xunzi, a sprinkle of Eastern history and more. — My main knowledge of eastern philosophers was genuinely from Epic Rap Battles, before this book. You have to watch it: I then read the book explaining them better, here’s a TL;DR: We can and should try to improve ourselves (Confucius, Xunzi) Aim to improve every aspect of yourself equally and at the same time (5 Virtues) Behaving “as if” something…

A progressive web app — Cheap to develop, tiny file size, no app stores — The problems of Native apps App stores They take a percentage cut (15% typically), can have questionable ranking and reviews, and can require users to jump through multiple hoops to download the app. PWAs are websites that work on mobile and can be downloaded from that website on the users browser — in one click on Android.

Coming soon — a cultural evening plan from around the world just for fun! — Every month there are countless important celebrations around the world. Let’s join in! Get a food, music to listen to while cooking and a movie to watch for one night every month, for free. Emma and I started doing this on Cinco de Mayo 2021: a big and colourful mix…

Who am I to say? I have just finished OnDeck Build for Climate! As a cohort we have crafted some great ideas and strong connections across climate tech. See my top 5 ideas here: Alex Goff on LinkedIn: #help #climatetech #ondeck the top 5 ideas from OnDeck Build for climate! or at least my favourites! if you like their ideas reach out to them and…www.linkedin.com What you will get from OnDeck A slack channel invite