Luis Daniel Fonseca

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My Strategy to Make 2025 My Best Year Yet

My Strategy to Make 2025 My Best Year Yet

2024 was one of the most fulfilling years I've had in a long time. Two key factors made it so impactful: I started using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to track my main goals, both for projects and personal life, and I focused solely on completing those objectives.

My 2024 Retrospective: Lessons from a Year of Transition

My 2024 Retrospective: Lessons from a Year of Transition

When a year ends, I like to take a moment to reflect on what I’ve achieved, learned, and experienced across work, projects, personal growth, and finances. This is my open and honest retrospective of 2024, sharing the highlights and lessons learned. Before going through the highlights, one crucial point

How to setup Ghost in a VPS using Docker, Mailgun and SQLite

How to setup Ghost in a VPS using Docker, Mailgun and SQLite

Two months ago, I decided to move away from the cloud and self-host all of my services and applications on a single VPS. You know, just like the cool kids are doing. In this post, I’ll show you exactly how I set up a Ghost instance from scratch. Here’

Unleash the Power Within: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Reprogram Your Mind

Unleash the Power Within: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Summary In his live seminar, Unleash the Power Within, Tony Robbins teaches you how to overcome your limits and unlock your potential. He provides practical tools and strategies for controlling your mindset, overcoming fear, and creating lasting change. This seminar helps you understand what’s keeping you from moving forward,

The Phoenix Project: Summary With Notes and Highlights

The Phoenix Project: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Summary The Phoenix Project is a business fiction novel that highlights the challenges of IT operations and DevOps principles. The book follows Bill Palmer, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, who is unexpectedly tasked with saving the company's IT operations. Key concepts covered in the book: * The Three

How to Document Your Accomplishments at Work

How to Document Your Accomplishments at Work

One of the skills with the highest ROI you can develop in your professional career is learning how to document your accomplishments. 'If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?' Similarly, if you do impactful work

Tech layoffs continue: 4 things you can do to prepare in these uncertain times

Tech layoffs continue: 4 things you can do to prepare in these uncertain times

Two weeks into 2024 and companies have already announced they are cutting jobs. Duolingo is cutting 10% of its contractors. Twitch announced they are cutting 35% of its workforce, over 500 people. Google and Amazon have also reportedly laid off hundreds of workers. Layoffs.fyi, which tracks layoffs in the

When Enough Doesn't Feel Enough: Reflecting on a Year of Mixed Success

When Enough Doesn't Feel Enough: Reflecting on a Year of Mixed Success

After the new year ends, I like to go back and see what I was able to accomplish at work, projects, personal development, and finances. Looking back at last year, I feel a little conflicted. I have great accomplishments at work and in my personal projects. I have been able

Why You Should Start Creating Content in 2024

Content Creation

Why You Should Start Creating Content in 2024

Creating content can be a powerful way to make your mark. Creating content not only offers you a platform to express your thoughts and ideas but also presents an opportunity to build your brand, connect with like-minded individuals, and leverage your influence. This post will explore why creating content in

I Am Not Jeff Bezos, and Probably Neither Are You

I Am Not Jeff Bezos, and Probably Neither Are You

We hear stories of Bezos, Zuckerberg, and others who shot to fame with their first major product. While these stories can be inspirational, they’re not the blueprint for every entrepreneur. The rest of us? Well, we should approach entrepreneurship as a series of small bets, exploring different ideas until

Atomic Habits: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Atomic Habits: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Summary of the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear is a transformative guide revealing how tiny, everyday routines can add to huge results. Rather than focusing on ambitious goals, the book emphasizes the power of small, consistent changes – ‘atomic habits’. James explains that progress is not about one-time actions but

Sprint: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Sprint: Summary With Notes and Highlights

Summary of the book "Sprint" introduces a five-day process developed by Google Ventures to tackle and find solutions to business challenges quickly. This method helps teams design, prototype, and test their ideas, optimizing the decision-making process. It quickly became a go-to for startups and product teams eager to