3 Golden Nuggets a day - on Focusing as a Programmer and Masayoshi Sun

Keeping focused is quite a problem for any human which makes it quite an easy thing to notice about someone as well as a very valuable state of mind. When talking about engineering, pushing through the barriers of common knowledge focus is easy to acquire when everything is new and glittery, locking it down has been quite a problem for me lately. Below are some of the nuggets I found while trying to find an answer to my lack of focus problem.

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• Classic Read

Resource:
Mastery by Robert Greene (Author)

My one golden nugget:

To follow precisely the lead of others or advice from a book is self-defeating

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• How To's:

Resource:
Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual Paperback – by John Sonmez (Author)

My one golden nugget:

Working hard can be as simple as: We simply sit at our desk and do what we're supposed to do. We all have to learn how to push through and just do the work.

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• Biography:

Resource:

My one golden nugget:
Masayoshi Sun's start to investing story inspired me to try a new habit: allocate 5 minutes a day for invention

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Optional Bonus:

Reading Lists

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There are books that I reread regularly, but at the moment I read new books in trying to identify the best books to reread while trying to push my learning boundries. So far I got to organise my future reading in 6 lists, main readings for each time of the day:

• morning: classics (my definition of classics, must say)
• lunch break: how to's (programming or managerial mostly)
• evening: biographies

and 3 lists of books that look interesting but haven't got enough information for them:

• morning: classics
• lunch break: how to's
• evening: biographies

For people who just wanted to know how to choose what to read by Tai Lopez' talked of principles.

Do you have a book or resource that would like to see what nuggets I can get out from for you ?