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Gamestonk is still Alive
You remember Gamestop?
Seems the stock is still alive and has some ups and downs (and definitely more ups at the moment).
The best take on it I heard so far is the following: The right way to think about GME is that it's a cryptocurrency that happens to have a stock ticker. The fact that it doesn't have to rely on cumbersome blockchain theater is a bonus
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Why Kids Hate Writing
Michael He wrote a post on why do people hate writing, and why do people think they can’t write well?.
I saw it in my timeline with a comment from Paul Graham:
If you only write what other people make you write, you won’t enjoy writing. And if you don’t enjoy writing, you won’t do it well.
Michael marks the following points and I can agree with all of them:
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Would You Call yourself a Feminist?
As today is International Women’s Day I would like to know if you’d call yourself a Feminist? Would you call yourself a Feminist? I'd like to hear your answers and also let me know why (or why not) in the comments!https://t.co/Huzxy0z3rY #InternationalWomensDay #internationalwomensday2021 #feminist #FeministischerKampftag
— Data Dreamer (@DataDreamerCom) March 8, 2021 I’d like to hear your viewpoints and stories why (or why not) you’d identify as a feminist in the comments below the tweet!
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Crisis: improvised Responses
I think it was Pete Warden who circulated the following tweet storm into my timeline. It’s about the workers of Fukushima and how they improvised their responses and actions to minimize the disaster despite great risk to their own life. Read the whole thread - lots of astonishing details and very interesting how humans can outgrow themselves if needed/forced to do so. Later today I'm giving a talk on Fukushima Dai-Ichi as part of @UniLeiden's very cool semester-long study of a crisis, with different sector-area specialists invited to talk.
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Data Mesh
Who of you got experience with Data Mesh? The classical starting point is the article at martinfowler.com: How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh.
It’s quite an interesting concept and still in the beginning (at least for me). To simplify it I would describe it as Microservices for Data combined with a domain-driven design. With all the advantages and flaws of this architectural approach. There are plenty of articles and implementations for microservices and for domain driven design, however, I have yet to see an implementation of a Data Mesh.
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Am I creating Value with the Blog?
After long days it’s sometimes hard to motivate myself to write something. A while ago I already contemplated if I should switch to a more irregular schedule of writing. As I wrote back then: I don’t like the burden to write every day. And I would probably provide more value if I only publish when I really have something to tell.
For other people writing everyday: how do you motivate yourself for every post?
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Power of the Group
I always need to remind myself to use the power of the group. As I already wrote I’m working at a big IT consulting company. The Austrian office is rather small compared to the worldwide corporation (less than 0.04% employees), as Austria is obviously a rather small country and therefore a rather small economy and customer base compared to e.g. US or Germany or China.
It’s quite easy to get lost in the day-to-day business and try to figure problems out on your own.
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The Ink has dried ✒️
You remember I “bragged” that I sold my first project? Today the ink has dried respectively the contract came back signed! 🤩
My mood skyrocketed 🚀 when I saw it - definitely improves my drive even more.
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Recommendation 📖 Christian Haschek
Christian Haschek is a tech geek from Austin TX (USA), living on the country side in Austria. He’s not blogging all too often (once every few months), but if - then it’s always worth a read.
Just a few days ago he published how he heats his home by mining crypto currencies and cutting his electricity bill in half in the process. It’s a super-simple solution and effective if the prices of the crypto currencies he’s mining are high enough.
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Monthly Portfolio Update 📈 Feb 2021
Second series of my monthly portfolio update. To objective is to show what happened and to help me track the history of my portfolio.
Monthly Portfolio Update The first half of February started quite well - everything went up. The second half (or the last week to be more precise) fucked up the whole performance, mainly based on Tesla (the only stock I’m owning) going down from their all-time high.