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Serverless app on Google Cloud

If you ever wondered how to reate a serverless app with Google Cloud in few steps, then this tutorial is for you. Use Cloud Storage, Firebase and Cloud Functions to create a working and creative app.

Range by David Epstein

David Epstein is a journalist, writer and generalist. In his book Range – why generalists triumph in a specialised world, he tries to debunk the myth that the key to a successful career is early specialisation. Kind vs wicked Kind learning is restricted to a small and well-defined domain, like chess. The rules are specified […]

The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler

Steven Kotler is a journalist and a bestselling author, whose purpose (among two others) is to advance the science of flow. Flow is the term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describing the state of consciousness in which we feel our best and perform our best. We are fully focused on the task at hand and the […]

Effortless by Greg McKeown

Georg McKeown is the author of Essentialism, a book whose purpose was to help the readers to discern the essential from not important. However, as the author admits, focusing on the essential is sometimes not enough, because it turns out that these few essential things that we want to devote ourselves to, also require more […]

Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

What’s the secret behind the top performance? Is this secret common to peak performers across different domains? I believe these were the key questions that drove Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness to do an exhaustive research on performance and finally write a book. Having unique backgrounds makes them a perfect fit to answer the above […]

The art of learning by Josh Waitzkin

Josh Waitzkin the international Chess Master. He started playing chess when he was 6 years old and a year later he trained with a first formal trainer. After ending a successful career in chess, he started his learning adventure in martial arts. He chose Thai Chi Chuan as a complete beginner, and a few years […]

The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova – Book review

Maria Konnikova is American-Russian psychologist and a writer. She is a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University and in her 3rd book ‘The Biggest Bluff’ she describes her project/experiment in which she entered the Poker world with the goal to compete in the World Series Of Poker tournament. I’m not a big Poker fan, but […]

So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

Cal Newport is a Professor in a Computer Science Department. When he was entering the ‘academic-job market’ he thought more intensively about people who end up loving what they do and what are the common principles that they follow. He was at such a point in his career, where his decisions might have an enormous […]

Incognito by David Eagleman

To find out how to learn quicker, it’s good to understand how the brain works, at least to familiarize with the current state of what humanity knows about it. One book, which is ranked very high in neuroscience section is “Incognito” by David Eagleman. He is an American neuroscientist and science communicator. He teaches as […]

Peak – secrets from the new science on expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool – book review

What is the one thing all the top-performers, athletes, have in common? This must have been the life question of Anders Ericsson, who devoted thousands of hours to expert performance research. As a curious researcher, he wanted to check what happens when a human embarks on a journey from an average to a peak performer. One […]

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer – book review

Jim Kwik’s book “Limitless” gave me a lot of energy and motivation to work on my mental abilities. One of many books referenced there is “Moonwalking with Einstein”, which was labeled as groundbreaking. If you are the one who thinks human memory of a healthy human* can’t be improved, you definitely need to read the […]

Innercise – by John Assaraf – book review

When you enter the phrase ‘unlock your brain’ in Amazon.com’s search bar, one book that will always come up very high in the results page is ‘Innercise’ by John Assaraf. According to his ‘About’ page he has built 5 multimillion dollar companies and is now a CEO and founder of NeuroGym. What struck me most […]

How to unlock your brain – Limitless by Jim Kwik – book review

When I hear the word limitless I immediately remember the movie ‘Limitless’ with Bradley Cooper where the protagonist finds a pill which unlocks the full power of the brain and helps him to excel in every area of his life. I bet Jim Kwik, the author of the book “Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything […]