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Mallorca

4 days of hiking next to the beach, through mountains. Sun and cactuses everywhere.

Superbowl

I was able to obtain commented session of superbowl. Superbowl was full of ads and weirds bets on Taylor Swift, streakers and similiar stuff.

• The Guardian - Super Bowl: illegal bets surge as gambling experts warn of black market risks
• Business Insider - The Super Bowl streaker bet on himself, but this time it was a prop bet
• New York Post - Suspicious betting raises questions about Super Bowl Gatorade color odds
• News.com.au - Super Bowl 2024 betting madness: Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce to cost punters billions

““Country for the future””

• Pointless ban
• Manzelstvi

Things Happen

• My Integration team grew from 3 to 7 members integrating third party APIs in Python and Scala.
• We revived DnD session with friends :3
• Annas-archive is beautiful project keeping articles and books for everyone
• started using StreamCinema instead of Netflix
• I was without alcohol > 1 month, no chakras were opened :(
• This extender with onemesh helped us to solve bad signal in appartment :3

Articles

• Kotlin Multiplatform, alternative to react. Several companies are starting to use it in prod!

• My Birthday Gangbang, Aella is in-and-out sex worker obsessed with data writing cool blog posted on her blog. This even got some traction from Paul Graham :D

  • If "Aella birthday format" lasts, it's going to be awkward explaining it to kids.

    — Paul Graham (@paulg) March 4, 2024

• The Tail End by Tim Urban depressing reminder to find as much time as you can spend with your family. It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end. Quality time matters. If you’re in your last 10% of time with someone you love, keep that fact in the front of your mind when you’re with them and treat that time as what it actually is: precious.

• How to Know if Your Idea’s the Right One: A Founder’s Guide for Successful Early-Stage Customer Discovery validating startup ideas.

• Does Money Buy Happiness? According to Science

• RealDayTrading, it’s subreddit of smbd that decided to create r/daytrading and rich wiki on his daytrading strategy. I won’t invest into becoming a daytrader, but it was interesting to scim through it.

Reading

• ✅ How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology - I was always fascinated by trading. This is short book to explain basics of daytrading, one of the learnings is VWAP forever. This is indicator favored by a lot of traders. Will be blog post later.

• ✅ The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn if Your Business is a Good Idea when Everyone is Lying to You How to test ideas so even our mom can’t lie to us about the quality of idea. Will be blog post later.

• ✅ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses the OG book about startups, nothing really new except communication with customers. Will be blog post later.

• ⌛ Entangled life is very interesting book about fungi but for some reason it takes me long to read

• ⌛ Meditations

Podcasts

Vids

Games

✅ Baldur’s Gate 3

I enjoyed the game very much, but I was hasting to finish it as I spent a long time playing this and I wanted to do other stuff. The third act was pretty short and it felt like it was rushed in comparison with other acts.

⌛ Mass Effect

Staying in RPG roles I now play Mass effect on PS5

Series

• ✅ Futurama S08
• ⌛ Star Trek: Prodigy
• ⌛ Short Treks - found this by accident :3

Sports

• Bouldering - instructor awesome
• Krav Maga - started advanced classes, also visiting new club.
• Gym - No visible progress :D I am trying to visit gym at the morning.
• Running - We started running again as its getting warm