I've had quite a productive easter this weekend:
- Went to the gym and went for a run
- Read up about modernism and postmodernism and blogged about how it relates I think to software in Postmodern Software: Embracing complexity
- Worked on my new data flow pipeline project, wrote some tests and published it to nuget and interestingly I already got 12 downloads in one day.
- Swotted up on my Software Engineering course in preparation for my exam on Thursday 25th
- Learned about linear equations/formulas and functions.
- Learned about 3D theory around view transformations and linear geometry
- Read how experts conduct themselves and what traits they often present
- Read up on Hofstede and Tropenaars dimensions of culture
- Successfully deployed by Investment Manager frontend onto Heroku and unsuccessfully tried to deploy a backend docker container :-( Er no, never mind that - I actually got that working!
- Setup my Angular frontend to use the express framework as the web server.
That I think is not a bad weekend. I've still got more studying to do however having only finished a part of my study plan.
In between my study of software I've also learnt a lot about the economy with respects to the free market and how generally markets work. This has been interesting.
Its also allowed me to think about my investments and how to try and better manage the investments that I hold and will hold in the future. For example, I came across a Harvard Business Review article about weighted and balanced scorecards as a way to set up criteria to rationally reason about your investments so as to divest any emotional attachment to them.
The reason why this is good is that I know that I'm emotionally attached to some of the decisions I've made and need to be able to objectively distance myself from that sort of sentimentality as investing is not about liking(I like my investments) but more about growth and value.
I think I'm going to set one of these up soon.