Something new I’m trying

It’s reading a deep [hard] books or learning something new for an hour after an exercise/running session.

Whenever I’m back from the gym, I shower, and I just sit down and read a thorough book for 30-60 minutes – fresh out of a refreshing session.

It’s the same thing I’m trying to do after waking up. Wake up, sit down and read a hard science book or learn something hard.

When our mind is calm and clear in the morning, it’s the best to fill it in with the most hardcore stuff, the most difficult. Same after an exercise – the blood is flowing and the mind is clearer.

It works.

Something I keep doingDrinking tea from small cups pouring from a teapot, like we used to do back home in Syria. We used them when I was 3. Excellent in the morning with green teapot and a hard book.(You can still buy them online — from the French manufacturer Luminar. Or Duralex.)

What I’m reading

I’m reading multiple books on parallel. Here are some of books I’ve read recently.

Technical/EngineeringBen Stopford on Kafka: Designing Event Driven Systems is a very enjoyable concise read.AWS Certified Solutions Architect (All available books. Read 5 so far. None is the best tbh.)What is ChatGPT Doing, Wolfram.Deep Learning courses on MCP, Agentic AI, RAG systems and MM-RAG. Just search http://www.deeplearning.ai and you’ll find many. All under 2hrs. Attend 1 course on LangChain and you’ll have many ideas to tinker with within 30 minutes.History and Philosophy:History of Islamic Philosophy by Majid Fakhry is an amazing read (language/readability is a bit rough – still an amazing read.)The Cambridge History of China (Buckly.) Good, not best.Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, Nemet Nejat. Good, not best.

1 thing that is making me happy

Reading autobiographies. I’ve listened Ford’s autobiography across two days on 4 long walks (via Audible, not that I like Audible.)

Art or Poetry I’m reading

I’m reading Al-Mutanabbi poetry from a very old book with yellow pages from the old library of my father-in-law (RIP.)

Say thanks for 1 Person today

And my father-in-law, who passed away on Sept, 2023.