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2 min readJan 6, 2021
I started this blog to teach myself the most important knowledge — writing is an effective way of learning. It’s called abracadabra because that’s how I feel about my learnings and their improvement to my life and work. It’s a Hebrew phrase meaning I create what I speak.
Distributed System Design
- How do I design distributed systems in Google: Webhooks
- How do I design systems in Google: designing An URL Shortener
- How do I design distributed systems in Google: Taxi hailing app like Uber
- How do I write engineering design docs in Google: an example
- The anatomy of a horizontal scalable distributed application
- Trade-offs in distributed system (part 1)
- Trade-offs in distributed system (part 2)
- System design paradigm: Distributed source of truth storage
- System design paradigm: Sharding
- System design paradigm: Primary-replica pattern
- System design paradigm: Caching
- System design paradigm: Load Balancing(LB)
Self Development
- The Art Of War in one sentence
- The Pillar Habits
- Self-limiting superiority
- Denial of income race manifesto
- Reinvention for the impossible
- The pursue of a clutter-free home and organized life
- On reading well
- Moving the table
- Hunter and farmer
Leadership & Influence
- From excellence to altruism: evolution of my career
- (A) and (I) games in career
- Start with Who(at work)
- Driving a conversation
- Design patterns for communication and influence (part 1)
- Design patterns for communication and influence (part 2)
- Design patterns for communication and influence (part 3)
- A bad case study from Larry Page
- Insights from High Output Management
- How to perfect the game of influence
Longevity
- How to live forever or as long as possible
- Look good and live longer: how I lost 30 pounds and maintained a good physique
Investment
This section will be mainly about history and the mechanism of the economic machine. They are the foundation of sound investment strategy and should be the lifelong study focus for all serious investor. My interest is arbitrage at macro economics level rather than buy-low-sell-high type of speculation.
