Yurij Mikhalevich

Scrum is an Agile framework that aims to deliver high-value products with minimum waste. As a software engineer, I've always been interested in becoming more efficient at what I do. During my over decade-long career, I have worked with different teams using different processes. Currently, my favorite is the Shape

Hi. I will keep this post simple and stick to the last year's format. Let's proceed with the reviews. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake MastersThis was the first book I read in the year 2022, and, to be

The book is an interesting read, is well-written, and shares facts and stories about Apple that I hadn’t heard before. I loved the many ideas presented in the book, but I also didn't like a few. Among the many I loved are the following: focusing on the result, not

Back in the days, I used to read a lot. I would have a book in my hands every chance I had. Then came the period when I started reading much less for various reasons; this period lasting a while. A few years ago, I decided to fix this by

The cover picture was taken at Universal Studios Japan. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is, by far, the best fanfiction I have ever read. And it is also one of the best science fiction books I have ever read. The story is set in a world familiar to

I've recently finished reading the last book of five written by those behind the Basecamp company. I read some of them a while ago, so my memory about their content could be better. Still, I'll compensate for that by describing my impressions. I'm going to list the books in the

TL;DR: 10/10, highly recommend. The book is a collection of the most impactful papers written by Rogers over the course of decades centered around the idea of becoming. Life is guided by a changing understanding of and interpretation of my experience. It is always in process of becoming.

The fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art,