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Long story short, I am an entrepreneur who sold a company and am transitioning into maximizing my engineering knowledge before diving back into entrepreneurship

Long story short, I am an entrepreneur who sold a company and am transitioning into maximizing my engineering knowledge before diving back into entrepreneurship. I've spent a considerable amount of time studying top performers and learned how to manage stress levels effectively. I do exercise, meditation, yoga, stretching, forest bathing, mindfulness, journaling, and other activities that battle against burnout. I am much more worried about failing to meet my goals than I am burnout. Appreciate your concern though!

bilekas 7y ago
> forest bathing That sounds pretty awesome..
ronyfadel 7y ago
Kudos to you and best of luck :) I’m an engineer by trade, but I’ve quit my job recently to start my own thing, and moving into web dev (my experience is in native dev), so I both share your concerns and your reading list!
lopis 7y ago
You sound like a Tim. Are you a Tim?
smoe 7y ago
I'd say if the goal is to maximize engineering knowledge, less might be more. Especially if you don't plan to apply it on a day to day basis as an engineer. For example, I'm currently reading Clean Architecture by Martin that is on your list. While the words on the pages are not hard to understand and it doesn't rely on any advanced computer science/engineering concepts, actually comprehending the posed principles, their implications, how to reason about them and how to pull them off well in a real world scenario is absolutely non-trivial. I have met many people in tech that devoured douzends of books and conference talks, hundreds of podcast, blog posts, articles and that were an endless source of catchy quotes found in them. But they weren't able to actually apply all this "knowledge" to anything beyond the most basic. And in cases where these people where in leadership/management positions this often had negative impact on the project/product. To finish with a catchy quote from Clean Architecture: "The more haste, the less speed."
criddell 7y ago
No time for fiction?

bilekas 7y ago

> forest bathing That sounds pretty awesome..

ronyfadel 7y ago

Kudos to you and best of luck :) I’m an engineer by trade, but I’ve quit my job recently to start my own thing, and moving into web dev (my experience is in native dev), so I both share your concerns and your reading list!

lopis 7y ago

You sound like a Tim. Are you a Tim?

smoe 7y ago

I'd say if the goal is to maximize engineering knowledge, less might be more. Especially if you don't plan to apply it on a day to day basis as an engineer. For example, I'm currently reading Clean Architecture by Martin that is on your list. While the words on the pages are not hard to understand and it doesn't rely on any advanced computer science/engineering concepts, actually comprehending the posed principles, their implications, how to reason about them and how to pull them off well in a real world scenario is absolutely non-trivial. I have met many people in tech that devoured douzends of books and conference talks, hundreds of podcast, blog posts, articles and that were an endless source of catchy quotes found in them. But they weren't able to actually apply all this "knowledge" to anything beyond the most basic. And in cases where these people where in leadership/management positions this often had negative impact on the project/product. To finish with a catchy quote from Clean Architecture: "The more haste, the less speed."

criddell 7y ago

No time for fiction?