Hi guys it's another week… the second week of my "LEARN EVERYDAY" series. Last week had little frictions I would iron out this week so let's go 🚀
BookWorming
So last week, I wasn't able to keep up with the books I was reading and I missed like 4 days 😭, but I have decided to prioritize reading and I was able to read a chapter and half of REWORK: change the way you work forever by Jason Friedman and Daniel Hanneman Hansson the founders of Basecamp.. So here's a highlight of the lessons I learnt from them.
📖 Years of irrelevance: even if baseline of experience is needed in hiring, years of experience shouldn't be over emphasized and qualities like commitment, dedication, personality and intelligence should be emphasized on.
📖 Formal education: During hiring grades and level of education is also over emphasized, there are a lot of things school have taught you and you will have to unlearn them because they don't just fit. Skills and abilities should be optimized for rather than grades.
📖 Everybody works: In companies we have people like delegators all they do is assign and keep assigning more work to people and they do nothing, seriously they're liability to the organization… get everybody to do real work.
📖 Great writers: Writing is an underrated skill and no matter the position you are applying or hiring for great writers and great writing is important. As a potential employee, writing skills are very important. Start writing, develop those skills.
📖 Whether you're a student, developer, 9 -5er, entrepreneur focus on what you can do instead of what you have done. You would work for someone or a company at one point and prepare for the test-drive… Ask yourself what you can do with what you have done in the past.
📖 Front liners: if you are opportuned to be part of a team, Learn to get everybody including yourself on the Frontline, receive feedbacks from customers, see how people are reacting to something you did. Let the criticism and compliments come directly to you.
This book is for anybody even if it sounds like business owners or developers. Do not personalize these lessons and apply them in your perspective.
Articles × Blog-posts
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I'm currently covering up for the work I wasn't able to do because of electricity. I wouldn't be able to explain them... so you can read them.
CodeXperience
Electricity f*ed me up today really bad 😕. There was no electricity until this evening so I have probably not done anything related to code as at time of writing this except for watching a few tutorials and sketching code on paper. But I want to work on form validation of a pending project and also a front end mentor project also on form validation but broader than that… I believe the best way to know is to do that's why I am leveraging the front-end mentor platform to build projects.
$B ideas and Thoughts
I attended a BUILD camp some time ago and it was about phases of turning an idea into a product and for the first time I learnt about circular economy. A circular economy is a systemic approach to economic development designed to benefit businesses, society, and the environment. It is based on three principles:
•Design out waste and pollution
•Keep products and materials in use
•Regenerate natural systems
Read more about it on Ellen Macrthur foundation so I starting iterating on different things I could do under the circular economy, a lot of things like recycling paper and plastics, recycling E -waste collection and recycling and a Borrowing and lending platform for books, so this is the idea take for instance I have two books I am reading and in the next month I have four books on my read list. The question is would I have to buy those 4 books if I would just keep them on my shelf after reading? Why can't I lend my books out to borrow books I would like to read? I have reduced the cost for myself and most importantly accessed the Content without having to keep the container, the content is the knowledge and ink on the book the container is the book itself, the paper. I would love to test this idea within a small area like a city but the best place this model would flourish are schools like high schools and tertiary institutions, so that's the whole idea guys…. Would really love to work on it, if you e got anything or idea or you would like to participate in the test run with your friends' comment below.
Thanks for reading. Enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are 🌟.