Daily Reading List – June 11, 2024 (#337)

I just finished reading Stolen Focus, which is about why we’re struggling to do deep thinking nowadays. Good read. It relates to the first item I came across in my reading list today.

[blog] My Month Without a Smartphone. While “the system” may be against us, trying to distract us and keep us glued to screens, we’re not powerless. This post looks at an active stance with smartphones, and some legislation is out there to protect kids.

[article] Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You. Tremendous post by Charity that looks at why AI shouldn’t replace “junior engineers” and why a continued focus on the team is a good bet.

[blog] This Is How To Be More Lucky: 4 Secrets From Research. I don’t really believe in “luck”, but there are definitely things to do to ensure that you’re in the right place when opportunity meets preparedness.

[blog] How Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations. This is an excellent look at Stripe’s MongoDB-based database infrastructure and how they move data around.

[article] GenAI Is Leveling the Playing Field for Smaller Businesses. I see this more and more, as folks realize they can punch above their weight class by using AI in their small business.

[article] What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part III): Strategy. This wraps up the excellent series up on O’Reilly. This one has some very solid strategic advice.

[blog] Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta. Here’s a bit about the platform and integrations that Meta offers to users of it’s internal notebook service.

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