A few months ago, I had this thought of practicing Python every day for 20 minutes. If you use Python in your daily work, you should not rely on that work a substitute for a deliberate practice session. This was also echoed by Josh Kaufman in his book, The First Twenty Hours, where he could not rely on daily work that involved typing as a substitute for a deliberate practice session on touchtyping. If you are trying to learn touch typing, you might assume that since you are anyway typing emails, reports etc, you are in essence doing deliberate practice. Not really. Once you are in a deliberate practice session, your focus become the craft itself unlike the outcome of the specific task. Unless you set aside some time for the task on a regular basis, it is difficult to improve in any skill, be it touch typing or coding python.

In any case, setting aside a 20 min time slot for going through the book, “Effective Python” , helped me in reading this book slowly and digest all the wonderful information present in it. In any case, this book cannot be consumed in a few sittings. It will take quite amount of time to read, to think and understand various ways in which one could improve the craft of coding

This blogpost summarizes some of the main points from the book.

This blogpost summarizes some of the main points from the book titled “Signals”, written by Jeff Desjardins

This blogpost summarizes some of the main points from the book titled “Stolen Focus”, by Johann Hari

This blogpost summarizes some of the main points from the book titled “Love + Work”, by Marcus Buckingham

This post contains a brief summary of my learnings from a Udemy course titled Understanding NPM taught by Bodgan Stashchuk