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Brushing up on some social skills. Been reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen

Brushing up on some social skills. Been reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I'd be curious if anyone on here has good recommendations for this area. On the tech side I'm going to try to develop my python skills a little more. Expand my DevOps knowledge in my current professional stack which will mean Azure DevOps. Perhaps sprinkle in some LeetCode. I don't really want to grind it, but I would like to move someone warm like Florida, and it'll probably be a good idea to study a bit.

melvinram 7y ago
> anyone on here has good recommendations for this area Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
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- mortivore 7y ago
  Looks good. Added to the list. :D
thrwaway69 7y ago
I am reading the same two books, lol. I have planned for leetcoding and take up a few classic HN recommendations related to data structures and system design. I wonder how many people start with this exact combo and then it evaporates after a few months.
raybb 7y ago
I recently read The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker. It's a little less individualistic than Carnegie or Covey but does have some really great concrete ideas about how to get people together. Might be worth at least skimming if you're interested.
culopatin 7y ago
How to talk to anyone was a good book. Tells you things that you can develop and put some effort on, like reading a bit of topics outside of your interests so you have higher chances of having a good question to ask. Like say you meet someone that likes cars, if you don’t know anything about it, it’ll be hard to ask something non chitchat, but if you read a few news of motor sports, you might be able to ask something that sparks conversation. “Cool, yeah I don’t know anything about them hehe” Vs “Oh I don’t know much about it but I heard that X class is really competitive, what do you think?” Or something like that. Applies to anything really.

melvinram 7y ago

> anyone on here has good recommendations for this area Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi

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mortivore 7y ago
Looks good. Added to the list. :D

thrwaway69 7y ago

I am reading the same two books, lol. I have planned for leetcoding and take up a few classic HN recommendations related to data structures and system design. I wonder how many people start with this exact combo and then it evaporates after a few months.

raybb 7y ago

I recently read The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker. It's a little less individualistic than Carnegie or Covey but does have some really great concrete ideas about how to get people together. Might be worth at least skimming if you're interested.

culopatin 7y ago

How to talk to anyone was a good book. Tells you things that you can develop and put some effort on, like reading a bit of topics outside of your interests so you have higher chances of having a good question to ask. Like say you meet someone that likes cars, if you don’t know anything about it, it’ll be hard to ask something non chitchat, but if you read a few news of motor sports, you might be able to ask something that sparks conversation. “Cool, yeah I don’t know anything about them hehe” Vs “Oh I don’t know much about it but I heard that X class is really competitive, what do you think?” Or something like that. Applies to anything really.