Amit Cohen
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Amit Cohen
“I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that
... See more<<When we lose certain people, or when we are dispossessed from a place, or a community, we may simply feel that we are undergoing something temporary, that mourning will be over and some restoration of prior order will be achieved. But maybe when we undergo what we do, something about who we are is revealed, something that delineates the tie
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”— Henry David Thoreau
Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale
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execution
How Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work | Future - https://future.com/forget-open-source-algorithms-focus-on-experiments-instead
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The Data Team Playbook: 50+ Resources For High-Performing Data Teams
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business and Early Career Advice
a great collection of resources
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield
The 3-3-3 Method is as follows:
Spend 3 hours on your most important thing.
Complete 3 shorter tasks you've been avoiding.
Work on 3 maintenance activities to keep life in order.
The idea is that if you execute and check off these three major boxes, you've had a good day. It removes the pressure of "never enough" thinking whereby ambitious pe... See more