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<html language="en"><head><meta charset="utf8"><meta content="ie=edge" http-equiv="x-ua-compatible"><meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport"><title>Elio Capella Sánchez - Interesting content</title><meta content="A list of books, articles, documentaries or whatever I find interesting" name="description"><link href="/favicon.ico" rel="icon"><link href="css/normalize.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><header><img src="images/logo.svg"><nav><a href="index.html">Home</a><a href="resume.html">Resume</a><a class="active" href="interesting-content.html">Interesting content</a><a href="mailto:me@eliocapella.com">Contact</a></nav></header><section><h1>Interesting content</h1><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://youtu.be/o_4EX4dPppA" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">How I think about solving problems</h2><p class="author">Nicholas C. Zakas</p><p class="type">article</p><p class="comment">Nicholas, Author of ESLint and many books on JavaScript, has a very interesting strategy to find with the most important problems to work on or delegate at the right times.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Leadership</span></p><p class="added">Added on 20/1/2020</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://youtu.be/o_4EX4dPppA" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">The Hard Parts of Open Source</h2><p class="author">Evan Czaplicki</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">The creator of the Elm language shares some interesting analysis on how to make online interactions more constructive and friendly.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Software development</span><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 10/1/2020</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4M8GMoxi4" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Please don’t mock me</h2><p class="author">Justin Searls</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">Justin shares his experiences writing tests and describes the common mistakes that developers do when starting to write tests. It is always tricky to coach teams into testing correctly and this talk concentrates so many good points that it is a must watch if you are learning about the topic.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 2/12/2019</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1DazRK_a0" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Solving Problems the Clojure Way</h2><p class="author">Rafal Dittwald</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">Great explaination about the difference between procedural, object oriented and functional programming. Explaning the tools to minimize and concentrate side effects so most of the code ends up being made up of pure functions which are easy to test and debug.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 6/6/2019</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-in-Data" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Thinking in Data</h2><p class="author">Stuart Sierra</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">After many experiences with object oriented programming I agree that developers often get tangled up into defining the correct objects and their relations and loose focus of the actual problem they are solving. If you step back and understand that software is mainly about transforming data you can focus on solving the problem and remove a lot of overhead.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 21/9/2018</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Effective Programs</h2><p class="author">Rich Hickey</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">In as constant discussion about the importance of types and correctness in software development, Rich states that it is more important for a program to be effective than to proof that a program is correct. Most programs that are developed need to actually solve problems in the real world and that is the most important thing.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 18/8/2018</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Never Split the Difference</h2><p class="author">Chris Voss</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">The emotional part of our brain plays a huge part in negotiating. Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, explains how to improve your negotiating by focusing on listening and learning about the counterpart when negotiating.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 5/6/2018</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.bridgewater.com/research-library/how-the-economic-machine-works/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">How the Economic Machine Works</h2><p class="author">Ray Dalio</p><p class="type">video</p><p class="comment">I've been always surprise how little we know about how the economy works, this video those a great job explaining in a very basic way how credit created cycles in the economy and how they can be predicted.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Economics</span></p><p class="added">Added on 5/6/2018</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD0y-aU1sXo" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Agile Project Management with Kanban</h2><p class="author">Eric Brechner</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">I feel project management chaos is the most overlooked problem at companies, thanks to an organised and focussed process we can increase productivity and return sanity to the team.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Project Management</span></p><p class="added">Added on 30/4/2018</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Thinking, Fast and Slow</h2><p class="author">Daniel Kahneman</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">We like to think of our selves as rational beings but Dr. Kahneman found after research that our mind has lots of quirks that can lead to irrational behaviour. Best way to try avoid them is to know them in the first place.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 19/10/2017</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind</h2><p class="author">Yuval Noah Harari</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Having an overview of the human history is essential to understand why and how we reached to our present. Yuval explains how religion, economics and law are just myths we have inveted to be able to collaborate in large numbers. This myths exist only in our collective imagination and therefore can be shaped to improve our future. Will definitely read this book again.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">History</span></p><p class="added">Added on 22/8/2017</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KIVZw7Jxk" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">The surprisingly logical minds of babies</h2><p class="author">Laura Schulz</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">Simple intelligence experiments with babies show the inner workings of our minds.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 19/3/2017</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/039335279X" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Misbehaving</h2><p class="author">Richard H. Thaler</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Richard explains how his research has proved that the premises on which economic theory rest are flawed. We've been taught economics and believed it blindly but thankfully this book opened my eyes.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Economics</span><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 29/1/2017</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Grit</h2><p class="author">Angela Duckworth</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Angela has studied that talent is a myth not an excuse. Everything can be learned and exceptional people differ from you only in the amount of hard work they've put in.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 21/12/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Spec-ulation</h2><p class="author">Rich Hickey</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">The founder of Clojure ashames the developer community yet again explaining why software versioning is completely broken.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 2/12/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://algorithmstoliveby.com" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Algorithms to live by</h2><p class="author">Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Great book to improve your decisions. Contains a summary of mathematicians inventions that we can use to solve our day to day problems.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Math</span></p><p class="added">Added on 25/11/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">I hate almost all software</h2><p class="author">Ryan Dhal</p><p class="type">article</p><p class="comment">The creator of Node.js rants about software development, I agree we have to open our eyes and start rethinking software development.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 23/8/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/461104.The_Ascent_of_Man" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">The Ascent of Man</h2><p class="author">Jacob Bronowski</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">A fantastic summary of all the inventions and discoveries that have been crucial to build our current lifestyle.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">History</span><span class="tag">Science</span></p><p class="added">Added on 17/8/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck/dp/0345472322" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Mindset</h2><p class="author">Dr. Carol S. Dweck</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">A simple yet powerful strategy to embrace a growth mindset that empowers you to never stop learning, anything can be learned with effort.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 11/8/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://www.amy-movie.com/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Amy</h2><p class="type">documentary</p><p class="comment">A very detailed story of the singer Amy Winehouse. Her depression boosted her creativity but lead her to bad health and self destruction.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Music</span></p><p class="added">Added on 5/8/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://vimeo.com/36579366" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Inventing on Principle</h2><p class="author">Bret Victor</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">Bret shows how to disrupt software development empowering the developer with the current state of the program instead of making the developer play computer.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Inspiring</span></p><p class="added">Added on 29/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">We are legion - The Story of the Hacktivists</h2><p class="author">Brian Knappenberger</p><p class="type">documentary</p><p class="comment">The story of how activism and technology mix and how might the future of activism be as technology continues to conquer every aspect of our lives.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Activism</span></p><p class="added">Added on 27/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lMTFPf3NQ" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Happiness - What your mother didn't tell you</h2><p class="author">Daniel Gilbert</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">It isn't very usual to apply science to feelings, this talks brings data to try to study what makes us happy.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 17/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Jonathan Blow on Software Quality</h2><p class="author">Jonathan Blow</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">Share the feeling that we are in the dark ages of software development, web development is a mess and even the most simple projects turn into huge complex balls of code that no one fully understands.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 11/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://bengarney.com/2016/06/25/video-conference-part-1-these-things-suck/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Video Conference: This things suck</h2><p class="author">Ben Garney</p><p class="type">article</p><p class="comment">Interesting set of articles where Ben explains how he creates his own video conference software explaining the technical details.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 10/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P97r9Ci5Kg" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself</h2><p class="author">Dr. Richard Wolff</p><p class="type">documentary</p><p class="comment">Wolff explains very clearly the flaws in the current economic system and how it's going to destroy itself. Fascinating that Marx found out these flaws 200 years ago.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Politics</span></p><p class="added">Added on 7/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://vimeo.com/67076984" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Media for Thinking the Unthinkable</h2><p class="author">Bret Victor</p><p class="type">talk</p><p class="comment">We are stuck using computers as if they were digital pencil and paper, Bret shares his inspiring vision on how to use computers to bring a new level of thinking.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Inspiring</span></p><p class="added">Added on 5/7/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://thedishonestyproject.com/film/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies</h2><p class="author">Dan Ariely</p><p class="type">documentary</p><p class="comment">Set of experiments that study how much we lie and what factors influence our behaviour when lying.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 27/6/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://requiemfortheamericandream.com/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Requiem for the American Dream</h2><p class="author">Noam Chomsky</p><p class="type">documentary</p><p class="comment">Great explanation of the current state of the economic system and how the great bulk of the wealth has ended is in the hands of a few.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Politics</span></p><p class="added">Added on 8/6/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://howtocreateamind.com/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed</h2><p class="author">Ray Kurzweil</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Agree with the brain theory that Kurzweil exposes in this book and I'm sure that we will soon find out how to emulate the human intelligence with computers.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Artificial Intelligence</span></p><p class="added">Added on 13/6/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship</h2><p class="author">Robert C. Martin</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Feel like it's a must read. I've always shared the feeling that code readability eases code maintenance which is the greatest pain point of software development.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Technology</span><span class="tag">Software development</span></p><p class="added">Added on 21/4/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B00DQ845EA/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o05_?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers</h2><p class="author">Ben Horowitz</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Great detailed story of how Horowitz built successful businesses, shares lots of lessons which are of great value.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Startups</span></p><p class="added">Added on 16/4/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="http://www.maidentrip.com/" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Maidentrip</h2><p class="author">Laura Dekker</p><p class="type">documentary</p><p class="comment">Laura Dekker a 14 year old goes sailing around the world alone for two years. Demonstrating there are many paths you can choose in life that you may have never thought of.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Adventure</span><span class="tag">Inspiring</span></p><p class="added">Added on 9/2/2016</p></a><a class="interesting-content-entry" href="https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B008HSEGH0/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o08_?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank"><h2 class="title">Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems</h2><p class="author">Lou Marinoff</p><p class="type">book</p><p class="comment">Applied philosophy for day to day problems. It's amazing how useful can philosophy be when you are worried for something.
</p><p class="tags"><span class="tag">Philosophy</span><span class="tag">Psychology</span></p><p class="added">Added on 7/2/2016</p></a></section><footer><p>Last website update on 20/2/2020</p></footer></body></html>