I did a lot of reading this week. Following up last week’s reading of Do the Work, I picked up Steven Pressfield’s *Turning Pro. Turning Pro is a worthy follow up to Do the Work. It takes the battle against resistance further. Pros show up every day and put in the work. They don’t necessarily produce their best work every day, but they’re committed and put in the effort no matter what. By controlling what they can, professionals are able to defeat resistance and create the work they were meant to produce. I also read Thaler’s Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. It’s an interesting look at behavioral economics and shows a ton of examples where humans act irrationally by default. I’m a big fan of reading about such cases because it helps us avoid being taken advantage of. We all could stand to think a little more like an econ.

Work Through the Resistance

Outside of reading, I also made some progress on IdeaListz and started working on a Gatsby version of Dev-erday. I’ve been wanting to move Dev-eryday from Jekyll to Gatsby all year, the goal is to get it moved over to Gatsby before the end of the year. Having the site on Gatsby will be a great way to move the site forward. Since Gatsby uses React, JavaScript, and GraphQL, it’s far more natural than the Ruby-based Jekyll. It’s also generating a lot of praise and getting more popular by the day.

Finished

Online Course(s): Design a Monitoring Strategy for Identity and Security in Microsoft Azure

Book(s): Turning Pro, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Currents

Online Course(s): Advanced React and GraphQL

Book(s): Entity Framework Core in Action

On the Next…

Thanksgiving week is finally here. It’s time to kick back for a little bit. I’m hoping to make some more progress on the IdeaListz site and keep plugging away at the Gatsby version of Dev-eryday. Also, it’d be nice to read a few chapters of Entity Framework Core in Action. I’m six chapters in now, and really enjoying it. Entity Framework Core is a step forward for Microsoft’s ORM. It’s time to dig in further this week. The books guidance on integrating EF Core with ASP.NET Core is some of the best .NET Core material I’ve seen.