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August 2020

Jorge Sanz | 2020-08-01 | 285 words | update

👨‍💻 Professional

This month I plan to spend some time on improving Elastic basemaps, part of that meaning to also contribute to the OpenMapTiles schema and styles projects. I will also be spending some time on our Users Conference happening next month (but being recorded now).

By the way, I had my first anniversary at Elastic the 2nd of September 🎉. Time flies!!

❤️ Community

Mid September I will be participating with my manager in Geomob, a virtual community meetup; apart from the preparations for the company conf, I'm also excited to try to attend NACIS event as well (they happen to be the same days!).

🏠 Personal

Holidays are already gone and forgotten (but we enjoyed the time off greatly). We will try to get out for a weekend later this month, but apart from that, with COVID cases raising again, we don't expect a lot of social activity.

I'm also getting more serious in my investing activities, trying to track better where I'm saving and hopefully making better decisions for our future.

📚 Reading

This last month, after finishing The Moon is a Harsh Mistress[1] and Rich Dad, Poor Dad[2], I enjoyed the audio adaptation of The Sandman[3], and now I'm reading/listening Death's End[4] from Cixin Liu, the third book of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series. I also started reading The Dispossessed[5] by Ursula K Le Guin, but I'm certainly not spending too much time with real reading lately.

=> 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16690.The_Moon_is_a_Harsh_Mistress | 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad | 3: ts | 4: de | 5: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed

And in the what's next/postponed queue, my usual non-fiction books:

• The Intelligent Investor[6] by Benjamin Graham
• How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information[7] by Alberto Cairo
• Work Rules[8] by Laszlo Rock
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World[9] by David Epstein

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=> 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor | 7: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43726576-how-charts-lie | 8: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22875447-work-rules | 9: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range

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