My book rotation reading system!

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🐈‍⬛ Life

Hi friend! How’s the week going for you? Another intense week and I’m excited to buy the parts to build a PC this weekend. About time huh? ALSO REMINDER TO SUBMIT YOUR TAXES!! 🧾

(๑*ᗜ*) Anime

I watched a lot of anime this week. Finally watched all of ReLIFE and also some of Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout, thank you Ecstacy #6969 for the recommendation!

ReLIFE is about this 27 year old guy who’s a semi NEET that was offered a chance to go back to the last year of high school. It’s a 1-year experiment for him to experience the “springtime of youth” again and reinvigorate his dead soul lol. It’s like an adult’s take on high school and kind of made me remember all the times that I didn’t realize were precious when I was that age too. 🥺

Yeah, I’m still on a slice-of-life binge. It’s done really well - highly recommend!

📖 Books

I started reading two books, the first one is a business/strategy book called Blue Ocean Strategy and the other is called The Body Keeps the Score.

The Body Keeps The Score is a very interesting book. It’s about how trauma manifests itself and wrecks havoc on your body and mind. It talks about how trauma rewires the brain to put people in a constant state of stress or numbness, which results to a bunch of physical issues as well.

Trauma may be able to explain some things that you struggle with and just can’t overcome no matter how hard you try.

I think the scariest thing to me is how insidious trauma can be. For a lot of people, trauma doesn’t just go away, it follows you throughout your entire life and continuously screws things up. And the scariest part is that oftentimes people don’t even realize that it’s the trauma. They repeatedly do things that they know are bad for them and react to stimuli in a certain way even though they consciously know that it’s illogical, yet they can’t control it.

It’s an evidence-based book and offers a lot of insights into how the brain functions. Since trauma is both so prevalent and insidious, I highly recommend this book even if it’s not directly relevant to you. Chances are there’s someone you know that may be suffering from the aftermath of trauma, even if they don’t realize it themselves.

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🌻 Learning & Productivity

Tbh nothing new to report here. Still continuing my experiment with environment design. We’re also working on re-doing our website and designing scoreboard templates for the scoreboards! Here’s the video about what scoreboards are btw if you’re not familiar. 🌻

I thought I would share a bit about my reading system though!

I usually have 2 - 3 different books I’m reading at the same time. It’s usually one light fiction book, one not too difficult to digest book eg. The Body Keeps the Score and Never Split the Difference, and one more intense book eg. Blue Ocean Strategy.

Kafka on the Shore is the fiction book I’m reading.

The light fiction book I listen to as an audiobook whenever I have some free time and when I’m doing things like cleaning. The not too difficult to digest book I also listen to as an audiobook when I’m biking and doing exercise. The more intense book I read on kindle at night before I go to sleep.

I use the kindle at night because it helps me go to sleep since I don’t need to turn on the lights like a physical book.

In case anyone is curious I have an Amazon Kindle Oasis and it’s amazing but super expensive. I upgraded from the Paperwhite when that one started dying. Kinda justified it because I do use it a lot. For most people though, I would recommend starting with a Paperwhite and see how much you actually use it! But alas, it seems both are out of stock right now though…

Lmk if you’re interested in my entire reading system like taking notes, revisiting etc.

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👨‍💻 Coding

Tbh nothing new to report here either. I was talking to my blockchain friend but he got a bit busy so I’m going to continue forge on by myself!

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💻 Today’s coding challenge (SQL/Python)

Find the customer who has placed the highest number of orders. Output the id of the customer along with the corresponding number of orders.

Head on over here to answer the question!

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-Tina