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Books for 2022
I'll add this post here and make it public, so it can be enough motivation for me to read those all books, and possibly share insights with you if you are interested.
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks about changing himself."
— Leo Tolstoy
The Chinese room
The idea of the experiment is that if you take someone without knowledge of the Chinese language into a room, and give them templates with answers, like "if X -> Then Y", and then get a real native Chinese speaker to write questions, that person in the room would be able to find the matching question and give an aswer, even without understanding the details and knowing Chinese language.
Importance of loading states
It seems obvious that we need to keep the system status visible and responsive to our actions, yet we still see a lot of examples, when after retrying the system status is unknown.
Refresh in Mail and Calendar app
When you want to get new mail in the macOS mail app you hit Shift+Cmd+N. When you want to refresh events in the Calendar app you hit Cmd+R. Do you find it strange?
Travel anywhere while you can't
I think Agoda's marketing team probably knows that I'm in Vietnam. And I bet they have operations office in Vietnam and they know that Vietnam has a lockdown for the past month or longer.