Recently I wrapped Yale’s Introduction to Psychology course at Coursera. I will post my notes/overview here. The certificate can be downloaded here.
Continue reading “Introduction to Psychology overview”Category: Review/overview
The Courage to be Disliked overview
I bought this book recently and went through it in a single weekend. It reads very easily. The book is a dialogue between a philosopher and a young person; naturally, in the beginning, the young person is very skeptical about what the philosopher has to say. They discuss philosophical and psychological concepts in five days, and each day is a separate chapter, whereas each chapter is 40 pages on average.
The authors are mainly inspired by the psychologist Alfred Adler and use many of his concepts/ideas, but they also find inspiration in Socrates, Platon, Aristotle.
Continue reading “The Courage to be Disliked overview”Games People Play overview
Social generalization, besides its flaws, always has advantages over no generalization. Mental stimulation helps both the mental and the physical state of a person. People like to structure the time (e.g., someone breaking the silence in a group) – this structure is aka programming, and it can be material (parent)/social (adult)/individual (child).
Continue reading “Games People Play overview”A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist overview
Saw this book at a local store and decided to buy it. There are 10 chapters, each accompanied by meditation exercises. It was interesting to see how for some of those, I had already spent a lot of time and reached the same conclusions myself.
Continue reading “A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist overview”Goodbye KDP, hello Apress
In 2018 I self-published my first book (Gentle Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris) using Leanpub and KDP (Amazon CreateSpace at the time). I blogged about that here.
In this blog post, I will write about moving away from KDP and publishing with a more normal publisher.
Continue reading “Goodbye KDP, hello Apress”
bor0's reflective blog 