Triworld Devlog #0

Hi everyone. Welcome to the first Triworld devlog. I’ve decided to collate all my side projects (toy renderers and engines) into a single one that I’m calling Triworld, a voxel adventure game inspired by Terraria, Cube World, The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Minecraft. For the past 3 months and for the next few months I’ll be working on a simple editor that will be used to create and manage voxel “sprites” and palettes....

June 5, 2024

Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living - Book Review

Author Fumio Sasaki Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Minimalism is about the important things Minimalism is personal Minimalism is about true happiness and peace of mind 🎨 Impressions I love this book. It’s probably one of my favourites in the genre. The book talks about: 55+12 rules to more easily become a minimalist; the personal experience of the author and some of the philosopy behind minimalism....

February 4, 2024

The Little Book of Talent - Book Review

Author Daniel Coyle Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 12/01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences There are no prodigies. Only cultivated talent and practice. Practice with intention (slow down, exagerate moves, introduce challenges). Hard Skills (kicking a ball) vs Soft Skills (reading the field). 🎨 Impressions A bit too short. Some chapters could have benefited from a few more words. How I Discovered It I had it in my TODOs for a while, I don’t remember....

January 14, 2024

A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Book Review

Author Burton G. Malkiel Genres Finance Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~2022 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences On a long enought time horizon, nobody can beat the S&P500. Historically, the market goes up, eventually it will go down and nobody can predict when. The best investor is a dead investor. 🎨 Impressions Its a good book explaining the history of the stock market with the major bubbles and modern portfolio theory....

January 14, 2024

Why We Sleep - Book Review

Author Matthew Walker Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖🖤🖤 Date Finished ~2023 🎨 Impressions I’ll keep the review short and concise. My first impression of the book was good. I thought that anyone striving to improve their sleep quality should have read it. But after reading the article Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors I’m not sure anymore. It seems that in the first chapter alone there are an unproportional number of uncited papers, misleading citacions, wrong percentages and factual errors....

January 14, 2024