Goodreads my year in books 2024

2024 Wrapped Up

Hi, I know, I know! Everyone’s doing “wrapped up”s, and it’s getting cheesy, but I will do it anyway. It’s fun, and I really enjoy reflecting on the past and setting goals for the next year. But before that, I invite you to watch this amazing interview with Sam Altman. Books Let’s start with books. I had a goal to read 15 books but I only read 10. Here you can see more about my year in Books. ...

December 30, 2024 · 2 min · Mehdi Khoshnoodi

Solving vs. Solution

Hello! This week, I will focus on a discussion I had with a friend about an interesting idea. I really enjoyed the talk, and I guess you might too since it covers a very common pitfall in starting a startup. I hope you enjoy it. Don’t forget to subscribe! Startups Let me introduce you to Mohammad Rafigh. He’s a great software engineer and a very talented musician and he’s one of my very close friends. Be sure to check out his work, especially the music and you’ll be amazed. Enjoy his latest track. ...

December 23, 2024 · 3 min · Mehdi Khoshnoodi
Screaming Seagull

Fear NOT

Hey hey! It’s been almost two years since my last post on this newsletter. A LOT has happened since then and I’m not even gonna try recapping it. Let’s just dive into what I’m going to do now :) Reboot as Fearless “Fear” has been my one and only true enemy in life. Every day I’m trying to do/build something and fight the fear of failure and judgment. I’ve decided to write about these stories and share my journey with you. As you probably know the topics I’m super interested in are software engineering, startups, leadership, business, and Investment. ...

December 16, 2024 · 3 min · Mehdi Khoshnoodi

Last Week's Good Content

Hi! As you know I’m very new to publishing this newsletter. I’ve been posting content recommendations on my Telegram channel, Twitter, Mastodon, and, LinkedIn and I was planning on republishing mostly each week’s content as an issue for this newsletter. I’m not still sure whether it’s a good idea or not. I’m thinking about it and I’ll keep you posted as well. Meanwhile, I’d be happy to get your advice. What do you think? ...

February 13, 2023 · 4 min · Mehdi Khoshnoodi
Type writer

I write, therefore I am

Writing is hard. But I’ve always enjoyed it as well, despite all the frustrations. It helps to think better. I’ve recently read this great blog post (Writing is Magic) and I couldn’t agree more with it. Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. Why this, why now? As I said I enjoy writing and I’ve always wanted to have a newsletter but I never had the courage and the confidence that I’ll have enough content for the next week or event the next month. Recently it seems that I’m getting more consistent in reading a few articles every day and writing about those that I really like on my Telegram channel. ...

February 6, 2023 · 2 min · Mehdi Khoshnoodi