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Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 211 // Week 8 // 2022

February 19, 2022 No Comments

Hi Friends!

Greetings from Mumbai!

This past week, last week was productive and more and more learning for me.

I wrote multiple micro essays on different topics. Insipired from writers like David Perell and Seth Godin.

If you want to keep up with my writing, follow me on Twitter.

Here is this week’s Saturday-Pentacle. Enjoy!

Issue 211 // Week 8 // 2022

A good resource if you want to learn about GitHub —

Getting started with GitHub – I’ve been tinkering with NoCode tools but while doing that I stumbled upon GitHub once again. I’ve used version control systems before, but never got around working with GitHub on any of my previous projects.

What made me wonder was it’s not just that you can use it for code and development pipelines, but also for documentation and version controlling of documentation.

In their getting started page there is a lot of good info to get started with version controlling and related stuff like –

Create and use a repository
Start and manage a new branch
Make changes to a file and push them to GitHub as commits
Open and merge a pull request

If you are curious about GitHub, this is a good time you get started.

My recent LinkedIn Article —

Managing Turbulence – We all face highs and lows in our lives. But we never know how long each phase might last. In this article, I try to explore that, how to manage turbulence? What we can do to avoid such situations and if not avoidable – how we can prepare ourselves to get through them?

A Tweet thread I loved —

I loved this thread by RomeenSheth. His thoughts on the world’s most valueable skill, check it out.

The world's most valuable skill:

Clarity of thought.

The problem? There's no school for this.

It takes time, patience and a lot of early career fumbling.

Here are 10 cognitive distortions I faced early in my career and an insight on how to break through each one:
— Romeen Sheth (@RomeenSheth) February 16, 2022

A podcast episode I loved —

Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life (#571) – and when you think there are no more interesting podcast epiosdes coming up with great storytelling, there comes this one.

Boyd is really a Lion Tracker and there are a lot of stories in this episode, but a terryfying story of plane crashes in his childhood start from 12:55. Check it out, I promise you’ll burst out laughing.

Quote which I found meaningful –

Writing solidifies your learning, so if you feel like you’re forgetting most of what you consume, you should probably write more.
— David Perell (@david_perell)

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for supporting and reading.

Himanshu

About Author

I’m Himanshu Sachdeva, a technology professional working in Mumbai, India. I spend most of my spare time making Podcasts, YouTube videos and write on Lifestyle Design and sometimes stories.

Every Saturday, I send out an email newsletter called “Saturday Pentacle”, a list of the cool stuff I explored in the past week, including quotes, photos, books, articles, movies, documentaries and so on!

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Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 211 // Week 8 // 2022

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A recent episode of my Podcast –

Episode 12 – Gopi Vadsak (Aawaari) – Breathing emotions into visual art and making it come alive! – In this episode, I’m talking to Gopi Vadsak popularly known on Instagram as Aawaari.

She is a visual designer, stylist, photographer and a creative director. Her creative photos and videos go viral every now on then on the Interwebs. Her work has been recognised by the likes of Adobe. We touch base on a variety of things in this conversation like – Her story, her struggle with anxiety and her way out of it, her creative process. How creatives like her make money in this profession and on what scale they should charge. How to work with whatever tools you have in hand to make something awesome!

All of this and much more. (Click the link above to listen to the full episode)

My most popular Instagram post recently —

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A conversation which got me super fascinated about city recycling systems —

Brilliant Minds of Trash and Sewage – I found this podcast episode is very interesting. In this episode, Pam Elardo (Deputy Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection) and Ron Gonen (New York City’s first “Recycling Czar”) talk about how waste and Recycling systems in New York City.

New York City generates 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater every day. 16 million pounds of trash. Eight million pounds of recyclables. Think of the awesome engineering and effort behind making all of that “go away” without our thinking about it.

This conversation was fascinating and gives so many ideas which many cities should implement.

A song which has me hypnotised –

Goodbye – This song is the theme song of a Netflix series – Dark. I’m looking forward to watching the series. But when I saw the trailer of this series this song came up.

It’s from a German musician named Apparat and from Album – The Devil’s Walk

Now that I’ve listened to it, there is no going back, this song got stuck in my head and it feels hypnotic

Just mind-bending.

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is,
maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
Seth Godin

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

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