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How to Win Friends and Influence People Book Notes

2024/07/18 Justin Hammond 8 minutes Books

This was a fantastic read. Here are some of the things I learned: Fundamental Techniques to Handling PeoplePrinciple 1: Don't criticize, condemn, or complainIt is foolish to scold. People have enough trouble overcoming their own By criticizing, you won' ...

Book Notes: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

2023/11/21 Justin Hammond 8 minutes Books

Leadership is about enabling everyone around you to do their best workAs a leader, you affect people's lives in targetable ways that you see reflected back on the faces in front of youCaring is vital to this role“People are not pure functions, they have ...

Book Notes: Rich Dad Poor Dad

2023/07/27 Justin Hammond 5 minutes Books

Broke is temporary, poor is eternalAffirming you’re rich is a big deal. You can have a rich life without having loads of moneyMoney comes and goes, but education about money is powerfulLesson 1: The Rich Don’t Work for MoneyYou can only change what yo ...

Book Notes: Leadership and Self Deception

2023/05/04 Justin Hammond 4 minutes Books

Don’t treat people as objects, don’t view them as threats, nuisances, or problems“Get out of the box”, which is, viewing people as peopleLearn people’s names and faces, it humanizes themPeople don’t respond to what you do as much as who you ar ...

Book Notes: Software Engineering at Google

2022/11/02 Justin Hammond 5 minutes Books

“A programming task is often an act of individual creation, but a software engineering task is a team effort.lHyrums Law: “With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of yo ...

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