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With Short Reviews and Highlights.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/my-top-5-books-of-2018-with-short-reviews-and-highlights/", "published_at": "2019-01-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-5559f8dd68cb", "title": "I had 39 fully written but unpublished blog posts. 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Bleeding and mumbling.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/mumbling-and-bleeding-bleeding-and-mumbling/", "published_at": "2016-05-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0bc2ea5a", "title": "I will never be able to love my fellow men as I love my daughter, but I can learn to respect them in their differences.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/i-will-never-be-able-to-love-my-fellow-men-as-i-love-my-daughter-but-i-can-learn-to-respect-them-in-their-differences/", "published_at": "2016-04-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0c0a49d7", "title": "Thoughts on \"In Conversation With God\" by Neale Donald Walsch.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/thoughts-on-in-conversation-with-god-by-neale-donald-walsch/", "published_at": "2016-04-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0c8f1fc5", "title": "Thoughts on \"I, Robot\" by Isaac Asimov.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/thoughts-on-i-robot-by-isaac-asimov/", "published_at": "2016-04-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0ca004a1", "title": "On creativity.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/on-creativity/", "published_at": "2016-03-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0ca937f9", "title": "Doubt. Nature’s most poisonous paralyzer.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/doubt-natures-most-poisonous-paralyzer/", "published_at": "2016-03-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0d14e79a", "title": "A crash course on the history of physics. My thoughts on “A Brief History Of Time” by Stephen Hawking.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/a-crash-course-on-the-history-of-physics-my-thoughts-on-a-brief-history-of-time-by-stephen-hawking/", "published_at": "2016-02-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0d732748", "title": "Our endless journey to achieve self importance.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/our-endless-journey-to-achieve-self-importance/", "published_at": "2016-02-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0d96615f", "title": "The beauty of the unkown", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/the-beauty-of-the-unkown/", "published_at": "2016-02-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0dd94a81", "title": "How to learn any new skill in 20 hours or less.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/how-to-learn-any-new-skill-in-20-hours-or-less/", "published_at": "2016-02-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0e96a852", "title": "Why Do I Write? What Will I Do With It?", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/why-do-i-write-what-will-i-do-with-it/", "published_at": "2016-02-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0eb07648", "title": "My thoughts on Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/my-thoughts-on-extra-virginity-the-sublime-and-scandalous-world-of-olive-oil/", "published_at": "2016-01-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0f53ebe0", "title": "A better view on success for the 21st century.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/a-better-view-on-success-for-the-21st-century/", "published_at": "2016-01-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0ff475b6", "title": "My thoughts on \"Lost Stars\" by Claudia Gray", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/my-thoughts-on-lost-stars-by-claudia-gray/", "published_at": "2016-01-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a0ffef2fb", "title": "Why I loved \"The Rosie Project\"", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/why-i-loved-the-rosie-project/", "published_at": "2016-01-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a100e50a5", "title": "How to read 52 books in a year, or a book a week. And why?", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/how-to-read-52-books-in-a-year-or-a-book-a-week-and-why/", "published_at": "2015-12-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a10e8727b", "title": "The Reason Venezuela Had a Semi-Dictatorship For A Decade", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/the-reason-venezuela-had-a-semi-dictatorship-for-a-decade/", "published_at": "2015-12-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa1-736d-a8f3-555a1138b178", "title": "The Meeting — Conexus Part I", "url": "https://obedparla.com/stories/the-meeting-conexus-part-i/", "published_at": "2015-12-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-2168950df9bf", "title": "7 Things I learned from Harry Potter.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/books/7-things-i-learned-from-harry-potter/", "published_at": "2015-11-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-216895b00f77", "title": "Living more life", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/living-more-life/", "published_at": "2015-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-216895bd1625", "title": "Who Are We? And How To Change It.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/who-are-we-and-how-to-change-it/", "published_at": "2015-10-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-2168966c727c", "title": "What Is Love? Baby I Have No Idea.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/what-is-love-baby-i-have-no-idea/", "published_at": "2015-09-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-216897688399", "title": "Our Deep Loss Of Intimacy & How To Save The World.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/our-deep-loss-of-intimacy-how-to-save-the-world/", "published_at": "2015-06-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689805d7fe", "title": "Short Story: A Magic Bowl Full Of Tears.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/stories/short-story-a-magic-bowl-full-of-tears/", "published_at": "2015-06-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-2168989c9afe", "title": "How To Be Happy. And Why No One Is Happy.w", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/how-to-be-happy-and-why-no-one-is-happy-w/", "published_at": "2015-05-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-2168989d16d4", "title": "Why everything is a lie.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/why-everything-is-a-lie/", "published_at": "2015-05-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-2168993705bb", "title": "The Ring — Short Story.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/stories/the-ring-short-story/", "published_at": "2015-05-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-216899c1233b", "title": "Keeping promises 101.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/keeping-promises-101/", "published_at": "2015-04-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689a665a52", "title": "Why I Believe People That Never Leave Reviews At Amazon Are Assholes.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/why-i-believe-people-that-never-leave-reviews-at-amazon-are-assholes/", "published_at": "2015-04-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689a743c88", "title": "Demise of Tears — Short Story.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/stories/demise-of-tears-short-story/", "published_at": "2015-04-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689b407ec1", "title": "The odds of it, rolling the dice of life.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/the-odds-of-it-rolling-the-dice-of-life/", "published_at": "2015-03-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689c38dc49", "title": "The end of the story is all that matters.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/the-end-of-the-story-is-all-that-matters/", "published_at": "2015-03-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689ce94989", "title": "Practice: The Clock is Ticking", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/practice-the-clock-is-ticking/", "published_at": "2015-03-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689d98fa2a", "title": "Historia corta: La niña que no podia sonreir.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/stories/historia-corta-la-nina-que-no-podia-sonreir/", "published_at": "2015-02-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689e93dd18", "title": "Poem: What you have", "url": "https://obedparla.com/stories/poem-what-you-have/", "published_at": "2015-02-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b4-8fa2-7201-be7a-21689e9ddb43", "title": "Intuition. A gift we all share.", "url": "https://obedparla.com/thoughts/intuition-a-gift-we-all-share/", "published_at": "2015-02-09T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

A visual guide to React Mental models, part 2: useState, useEffect and lifecyclesoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2025

2024

A visual guide to React Mental modelsoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2024
How to improve your team’s communication in the age of remote workoriginal ↗
12 May 2024

2022

Notes (and quotes) on being good at negotiating - Never Split The differenceoriginal ↗
14 May 2022

2021

How I fixed my chronic pain by changing my developer habitsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2021
Your job is to learn, not to teachoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
Fix Figma not working on Brave browser with black screenoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2021
Circe - A delightful reminder of our mortalityoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2021

2020

How Video games Destroy my focus and long-term thinkingoriginal ↗
30 May 2020
Why these notes existoriginal ↗
1 May 2020
Migrating 5 years of WordPress to Gatsbyoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2020

2019

That feeling you get when someone closely teaches you somethingoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2019
The most enjoyable thing I currently own: The Nintendo Switch.original ↗
10 Nov 2019
On Meditation and Best quotes from "10% Happier" by Dan Harrisoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2019
My first week at a remote-first companyoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2019
I'm Not Good Enoughoriginal ↗
29 May 2019
The Age Of Artifical Intelligence: the future of jobs, algorithms and morality.original ↗
18 May 2019
Hiding your hero in plain sight: Duncan Idaho and the genius of Frank Herbert's Duneoriginal ↗
15 May 2019
How to create powerful habits that breed success: a review of Atomic Habits.original ↗
5 May 2019
Best quotes from "Atomic Habits" by James Clearoriginal ↗
5 May 2019
Best quotes from "21 lessons for the 21st century" by Yuval Noah Hararioriginal ↗
20 Apr 2019
The joy of coding: why I love being a programmer.original ↗
13 Apr 2019
Isaac Asimov, The Quintessential Writer.original ↗
6 Apr 2019
On Distractions, Ideas, Richard Feynman and having a great life.original ↗
17 Feb 2019
Opinion: Students Learn From People They Loveoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
My Top 5 Books of 2018. With Short Reviews and Highlights.original ↗
26 Jan 2019
I had 39 fully written but unpublished blog posts. So I wrote another one!original ↗
13 Jan 2019
When Time became our God, and anxiety our companion.original ↗
5 Jan 2019
How to find meaning and happiness in our lives.original ↗
3 Jan 2019
How do you gain knowledge? And how do we avoid losing it?original ↗
2 Jan 2019

2018

On Movies vs Books and Emotionally Rewarding Activities.original ↗
24 Dec 2018
Fahrenheit 451, a review and highlights.original ↗
18 Nov 2018
On world building, Twenty One Pilot's Trench, and creativity.original ↗
5 Nov 2018
My nonna and her stories.original ↗
30 Sept 2018
The casual, exacerbating philosophy of Montaigne - A revieworiginal ↗
14 Aug 2018
The last of Dune. Thoughts on "Chapterhouse" and the journey of reading Dune.original ↗
2 Jun 2018
Thinking Fast and Slow. Understanding Human Behavior. A Review.original ↗
6 May 2018

2017

The value of friendship.original ↗
13 Dec 2017
On Greatness And The Fear Of Tomorrow.original ↗
25 Nov 2017
Tap. Tap. Tap. – Poemoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2017
Wait, I'm an adult now. When did that happen?original ↗
18 Nov 2017
Playing with toy scissorsoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2017
A thank you note to the universe.original ↗
15 Aug 2017
Review: Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Leadoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2017
Poem: The Shape Of Us.original ↗
3 Aug 2017
On Becoming A Man.original ↗
30 Jul 2017
On Good Stories, Good Endings and Isaac Asimov.original ↗
26 Jul 2017
A lonely wolforiginal ↗
19 Jul 2017
Poem: Loved. Unknown. Lonely. Mistaken.original ↗
22 Jun 2017
Poem: Ourselves.original ↗
19 Jun 2017
To understand each other is to live, to understand ourselves is to be happy.original ↗
11 Jun 2017
I'm just a crazy old man on a blue box! And now I don't even have the blue box!original ↗
8 Jun 2017
Becoming who you are. From an irresponsible student to a 6 am waking up dad.original ↗
4 Mar 2017
My top 10 books of 2016 and what they taught me.original ↗
19 Feb 2017
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarkeoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2017
Oh well, it's 6:40am you see?original ↗
12 Jan 2017

2016

Why our misery and misunderstanding comes from the refusal of our instincts.original ↗
22 Oct 2016
I saw a death corpse that wasn't dead.original ↗
6 Oct 2016
Can we predict the future? And should we believe those who say so?original ↗
11 Sept 2016
The Lovers and The Call. A Short Story.original ↗
4 Sept 2016
On distractions, memory and ideas.original ↗
30 Aug 2016
Imagine a perfect, happy world. Now, imagine the opposite.original ↗
12 Jun 2016
My thoughts on The Analyst by John Katzenbachoriginal ↗
21 May 2016
I found myself between the sword and the wall. Should I be brave or wise?original ↗
10 May 2016
Mumbling and bleeding. Bleeding and mumbling.original ↗
2 May 2016
I will never be able to love my fellow men as I love my daughter, but I can learn to respect them in their differences.original ↗
29 Apr 2016
Thoughts on "In Conversation With God" by Neale Donald Walsch.original ↗
14 Apr 2016
Thoughts on "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov.original ↗
8 Apr 2016
On creativity.original ↗
7 Mar 2016
Doubt. Nature’s most poisonous paralyzer.original ↗
4 Mar 2016
A crash course on the history of physics. My thoughts on “A Brief History Of Time” by Stephen Hawking.original ↗
29 Feb 2016
Our endless journey to achieve self importance.original ↗
21 Feb 2016
The beauty of the unkownoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2016
How to learn any new skill in 20 hours or less.original ↗
18 Feb 2016
Why Do I Write? What Will I Do With It?original ↗
10 Feb 2016
My thoughts on Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oiloriginal ↗
25 Jan 2016
A better view on success for the 21st century.original ↗
24 Jan 2016
My thoughts on "Lost Stars" by Claudia Grayoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2016
Why I loved "The Rosie Project"original ↗
24 Jan 2016

2015

How to read 52 books in a year, or a book a week. And why?original ↗
26 Dec 2015
The Reason Venezuela Had a Semi-Dictatorship For A Decadeoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2015
The Meeting — Conexus Part Ioriginal ↗
5 Dec 2015
7 Things I learned from Harry Potter.original ↗
25 Nov 2015
Living more lifeoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2015
Who Are We? And How To Change It.original ↗
9 Oct 2015
What Is Love? Baby I Have No Idea.original ↗
27 Sept 2015
Our Deep Loss Of Intimacy & How To Save The World.original ↗
15 Jun 2015
Short Story: A Magic Bowl Full Of Tears.original ↗
6 Jun 2015
How To Be Happy. And Why No One Is Happy.woriginal ↗
9 May 2015
Why everything is a lie.original ↗
8 May 2015
The Ring — Short Story.original ↗
4 May 2015
Keeping promises 101.original ↗
12 Apr 2015
Why I Believe People That Never Leave Reviews At Amazon Are Assholes.original ↗
9 Apr 2015
Demise of Tears — Short Story.original ↗
8 Apr 2015
The odds of it, rolling the dice of life.original ↗
25 Mar 2015
The end of the story is all that matters.original ↗
21 Mar 2015
Practice: The Clock is Tickingoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2015
Historia corta: La niña que no podia sonreir.original ↗
24 Feb 2015
Poem: What you haveoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2015
Intuition. A gift we all share.original ↗
9 Feb 2015
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