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Privilege isn’t your problem, Excuses are

Upgrading monitors, learning to learn, lifestyle business, and privileges

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Shobhit Bakliwal
January 26, 2025

Hello hello! What’s up?

This is a letter, a personal letter, from me to you. I hope to send it to you every week. If you find it boring, or want to holler at me, just reply to this.

I am going to share three interesting things I came across the past week, every week.

Let’s get into it.

  1. Time to upgrade your monitor

Time to upgrade your monitor

A non-comprehensive and opinionated guide to best monitor for programming

tonsky.me/blog/monitors

A mammoth guide on how to choose a monitor when buying one.

  1. Learning how to learn

An old talk about learning how to learn.

My biggest takeaway was to read something on the page, covering the page and then trying to remember what we read. Been trying to do this for the past week, it’s surprisingly hard and makes you realize how you’re simply going through the motion of reading and not really absorbing much.

  1. The lifestyle business bullshit

The lifestyle business bullshit

I love when people call what we do at 37signals a “lifestyle business” — but probably not for the reasons they think. When the lifestyle card is pulled from its tired deck, it’s usually meant as a pat on top of the head. An “oh, that’s such a pretty drawing, dea…

signalvnoise.com/posts/1686-the-lifestyle-business-bullshit

Found a very old post that I had read in college.

DHH, founder of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails, talks about being called a lifestyle business.

Had a small beef on twitter about privileges, wrote about it on blog:

Privilege isn’t your problem, Excuses are

Recently I wrote about privileges on twitter and wanted to expand on that.

shobhitic.com/privileges-and-excuses

P.S. Hit me up if you’re looking for a team to build full stack web or mobile apps.