Some thoughts on recent self-reflections (part 2)

Similar to my previous post, here I will capture some of my recent brain activities 🙂

What are you thinking about right now? Pause and think before you continue reading. Now ask yourself the following questions: Why was I thinking about that? How did I feel? How did I feel when I thought about the previous questions? What other interesting questions can I ask myself? Why them?

The purpose of these questions is to trigger thinking about thinking. Meta-thinking is thinking about thinking, or beyond thinking. Likewise with meta-thoughts.

There are an infinite number of questions that can be asked. A small part of them will be shown here, but the point is not to write down all the questions, but to get into the habit of asking questions, mostly to yourself. Read a book -> new perspective -> more questions.

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Stillness Is The Key Overview

While randomly browsing through a library, Stillness Is The Key caught my eye. Before buying it, I skimmed it and checked reviews online which looked promising 🙂

It contains a ton of good content. Some of the explained stuff I have already experienced, but it was still great to read about those and I wish I’d read this book earlier.

The book contains three main parts: the mind, the spirit, and the body. Each of the parts contains several chapters, which usually start with a story and then the author proceeds to make generalizations of that story.

As in my previous blog posts, I will write an overview here.

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C.J. Wounded Healer of the Soul Overview

I bought this book last week and very much enjoyed it. It is a biography of Carl Jung, written by Claire Dunne. It neatly captures his path and it takes the reader through Jung’s life journey, along with his ups and downs.

Similar to some of C.J.’s works, this book is filled with artistic images. These visuals are beneficial for readers, as they help create associations with the text. At times, they even add a magical quality, transitioning the reader between “consuming art” and “consuming text,” which can inspire deeper thought.

As usual, I’ll provide a brief overview here.

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Au7omattic

Today, I turn 7 years at Automattic.

Overall, 2023 was a great year:

  • Working at Automattic allowed me to travel with my family and work from different locations. We traveled to all neighboring countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia), and also France, Turkey, and Spain.
  • Managed to ship tons of projects; a big one was where we structured and held a Security Workshop for over 40 teams (~250 engineers).
  • Got deeper into philosophy and psychology, and kept blogging/sharing my learnings. This helped me improve my role as a DevEx engineer.
  • Earned my WordCamp Speaker badge at WordCamp Skopje.

Time keeps flying at Automattic, it really puzzles me to think that it’s been 7 years already. Here’s to many more years 🙂

P.S. Check out my High Five post, 5 years at Automattic.

P.P.S. Happy birthday, Matt!