#rest

You Don’t Have to Earn Your Rest

By Leo Babauta Something I’ve noticed is that a lot of us have an ingrained belief that we can take some time off to rest if we’ve worked hard enough. Or often it’s like, “I’ll rest now so I can be more productive tomorrow.” The mindset we have ingrained in us is that rest has to be justified by how productive it will help us to be . This is so deeply ingrained in us that we don’t even notice it. It comes from the mindset that we need to be more productive, and that our lives have to be built around how to achieve more. It’s the central tenet of our society. And so in that vein, rest is only O

Zen Habits · EN

Article: The App Is Just the Tip: What It Takes to Build Mobile Infrastructure at Scale

What determines whether your app feels fast, ships often, and stays stable at scale is not the app itself. It is what sits behind it. This article is about that layer: what it does, why it exists, what it takes to design it correctly, and what happens when you try to migrate a live, high-traffic product onto it without a safety net. By Kirill Sokolov

InfoQ · EN

What the West can learn from AI optimists in the rest of the world

The developing world’s enthusiastic adoption of AI and necessity-driven innovations offer lessons for an anxiety-ridden West.

Rest of World · EN