Sharpening is the skill. Everything else downstream got easier once that was fixed.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Seven things half-started.
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- Essence of Linear Algebra3 of 15 · since April
- Rebuild the allotment shedstage 2 of 5
- Practical Typographyopened twice
- French, properly this timenot started
- That woodworking seriesepisode 4
- Designing Data-Intensive Applicationsch. 5 of 12
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Rebuild the allotment shed
Project · 2/5 stages
03
Essence of Linear Algebra
Course · 3/15 episodes
Shelf · 4 waiting their turn
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- 22 JunPaused
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You’ve pushed this down 3 times since June.
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Window functions replaced about half the application code I used to write.
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