<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rasul&apos;s Blog</title><description>Rasul&apos;s thoughts on things</description><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/</link><item><title>10 Years of Great Books</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/10-years-of-great-books/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/10-years-of-great-books/</guid><description>I&apos;m starting a 10 Year Reading Plan proposed by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler in their book &quot;The Great Conversation&quot;. You should join me so that we can learn together better.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2019 in Review</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2019-in-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2019-in-review/</guid><description>This is my attempt to review everything that I made happen, and that happened to me in 2019. It is crucial to remind yourself of the things you regularly did. Writing this post was very gratifying.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2020 Goals</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2020-goals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2020-goals/</guid><description>It is important to set some goals for the future year too. This is my attmept to capture my goals.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2020 in Review</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2020/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2020/</guid><description>This is my attempt to review everything that I made happen, and that happened to me in 2020. It is crucial to remind yourself of the things you regularly did. Writing this post was very gratifying.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2021 Goals</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2021-goals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2021-goals/</guid><description>In this post I want to publicly list all my 2021 goals. This will help keep me accountable.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2022 Goals</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2022-goals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2022-goals/</guid><description>In this post, I want to publicly list all my 2022 goals. This will help keep me accountable.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2021 in Review</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2021-in-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2021-in-review/</guid><description>This year I&apos;m partly following Anthony Gustin&apos;s Annual Review process. In this post, I will share my responses to Steps 2 and 3. I will also share personal statistics that I was able to collect during the year.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2025 Goals</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2025-goals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2025-goals/</guid><description>In this post, I want to publicly list all my 2025 goals. This will help keep me accountable and more structured. Though I doubt I will be consulting it often.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Project &apos;Built with Django&apos;!</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/builtwithdjango/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/builtwithdjango/</guid><description>Launching a new hobby project. I am making a curated list of products built with Django.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2024 in Review</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/2024/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/2024/</guid><description>My 2024 in Review I was very sad that I didn&apos;t finish this post last year. I hope to keep the tradition in the future.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnout is about moving forward</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/burnout-momentum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/burnout-momentum/</guid><description>Feeling burned out? The solution isn&apos;t rest—it&apos;s momentum. Making progress in any area of your life can break the burnout cycle and get you moving forward again.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cleanapp and Fast Shipping</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/cleanapp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/cleanapp/</guid><description>Building and deploying Cleanapp in just a few hours using Django CookieCutter starter and AI-assisted coding. How the right tools and approach can turn an idea into a live product incredibly fast.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Conference Volunteering</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/conference-volunteering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/conference-volunteering/</guid><description>This is a reflection on my first volunteering experience at PyData 2019.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Notes on the Declaration of Independence</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/declaration-of-independence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/declaration-of-independence/</guid><description>I finally read the Declaration of Independence and here are my thoughts on it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fear and Blogging</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/fear-and-blogging/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/fear-and-blogging/</guid><description>Few thoughts on fears of sharing.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Designing your first personal website</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/designing-first-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/designing-first-site/</guid><description>When I started developing my personal website I\&apos;ve had some difficulties. In this post I try to share what you should do to avoid those.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>February 2025</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/february-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/february-2025/</guid><description>Bringing back monthly reviews. February 2025 was pretty good.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gateway to Great Books</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/gateway-to-great-books/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/gateway-to-great-books/</guid><description>In this post I&apos;ll be listing the works from the &quot;Gateway to Great Books&quot; series that I&apos;ll be reading to keep track of my progress.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Get a Newsletter</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/get-a-newsletter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/get-a-newsletter/</guid><description>You really need to get a newsletter it is the best way to keep up with your online friends.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting what you want - Nice Man Edition</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/get-what-you-want-nicely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/get-what-you-want-nicely/</guid><description>As a general rule in life, you should provide more value to society than you consume. This should be, at the very least, your goal.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Read Books for Free</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/how-to-read-books-for-free/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/how-to-read-books-for-free/</guid><description>I&apos;m sharing a couple ways to find reading material online</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Joplin: open-source note-taking at its best</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/joplin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/joplin/</guid><description>I use Joplin to take note. I use it for my personal life and for my projects. This post explains why you should use it too.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>July 2023</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/july-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/july-2023/</guid><description>What I did in July with my side projects.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Most Advice is Wrong</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/most-advice-is-wrong/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/most-advice-is-wrong/</guid><description>I think that most advice online is bad. You shouldn&apos;t listen to anyone but yourself. Here is why...</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Just launched my first Web App!</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/first-web-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/first-web-app/</guid><description>Finally launched my first Web App. Kushim is my first Django project which was built from scratch.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Own Personal Space</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/personal-space/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/personal-space/</guid><description>My Own Personal Space. So Cool.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Naruto&apos;s Influence on my Life</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/naruto-influence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/naruto-influence/</guid><description>A few thoughts about my favorite anime and pieces of artwork in general. Mainly, how it impacted my life.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My First Acquisition</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/first-acquisition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/first-acquisition/</guid><description>After years of failures, I finally bought my first site.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>On the Golden Balance in Life</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/golden-balance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/golden-balance/</guid><description>It pays to approach your life with the golden balance in mind.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Open Source</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/open-source/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/open-source/</guid><description>My thoughts on the Open Source community and the culture behind it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Pocket Workflow</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/my-pocket-workflow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/my-pocket-workflow/</guid><description>I wanted to discuss how I use Pocket and how it integrates into the BASB flow.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PyGotham 2019: Day 2</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/pygotham-day-two/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/pygotham-day-two/</guid><description>Second Day of my first conference ever. I tried to make good notes during the talks I attended.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PyGotham 2019: Day 1</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/pygotham-day-one/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/pygotham-day-one/</guid><description>First Day of my first conference. I tried to make good notes during the talks I attended.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Save Emails to Pocket</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/emails-to-pocket/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/emails-to-pocket/</guid><description>In this post I share how I save email to my &apos;Pocket&apos; so that I can make notes on them. This is very useful for various email courses or other email with valuable content.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Sell Info Products</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/selling-info-products/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/selling-info-products/</guid><description>These are the notes I took and lessons I learned when listening Adam Wathan&apos;s Presentation at Microconf. In his talk, &apos;Nailing your first launch&apos;, he talks about the steps necessary for a successful product launch.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Socrates is Kind of a D*ck</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/socrates-is-kind-of-a-dick/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/socrates-is-kind-of-a-dick/</guid><description>In this post, I want to share my opinion on Socrates&apos; style of conversation and argumentation, and why I think he is being a little bit of a dick.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sponsorware is picking up</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/sponsorware/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/sponsorware/</guid><description>Caleb Porzio introduced me to the idea of Sponsorware. I am picking it up. I hope more people will to. In this post I tell you what Sponsorware is and why I think it is the future of open-source.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>There is Always Another Way</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/there-is-always-another-way/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/there-is-always-another-way/</guid><description>Rules and limitations can be overcome through creativity and finding alternative categories or approaches.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop telling me to exercise: dealing with a mild short-term depression</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/dealing-with-mild-depression/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/dealing-with-mild-depression/</guid><description>In this post, I wanted to share some of my reflections on the depressive state that I went through. I&apos;d like to share some of my thoughts that were running through my head and what helped me get over.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Throw Away Your Code</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/throw-away-dead-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/throw-away-dead-code/</guid><description>Discover why removing dead code is essential for maintainable software, better debugging, and team productivity. Learn practical strategies for identifying and eliminating unused code.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Reading is so Good</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/reading-is-good/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/reading-is-good/</guid><description>Couple of thought about reading and its benefits.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>You are the Problem</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/you-are-the-problem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/you-are-the-problem/</guid><description>We always blame the other person for being hard to deal with, but it is likely that you are the problem.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Algebra of Wealth</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/algebra-of-wealth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/algebra-of-wealth/</guid><description>Great guide to building financial security in our modern, tech-driven world. Cuts through the bullshit and just speaks plain facts.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apology</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/apology-plato/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/apology-plato/</guid><description>The Apology is Plato&apos;s record of the speech given by Socrates in court as he tries to defend himself in 399BCE against the accusations of &apos;corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes&apos;.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a Second Brain</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/building-a-second-brain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/building-a-second-brain/</guid><description>Building a Second Brain is a great PKM approach created by Tiago Forte. He has been teaching that course for a while now and has been publishing for many years at Forte Labs. This books is a collection of methods, techniques and ideas that he has formulated over those years. This book is perfect for someone who hasn&apos;t yet started collecting thoughts and ideas in a Second Brain.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Anthology of Balaji</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/balaji-anthology/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/balaji-anthology/</guid><description>Great book for people interested in optimistic high-tech future. If you are a &apos;side-project&apos; person, you&apos;ll get many ideas from this book.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Cold Email Manifesto</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/cold-email-manifesto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/cold-email-manifesto/</guid><description>Highlights on building effective cold email campaigns: hyper-specific offers, strong case studies, targeting &apos;Golden Geese&apos; companies, iterative testing, follow-ups, and scaling with deliverability best practices.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Count of Monte Cristo</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/count-of-monte-cristo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/count-of-monte-cristo/</guid><description>This is a beautiful and engaing story of wrongful imprisonment and a desire for a revenge. At times a little slow, but exciting enough in other parts to fully compensate.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Dhandho Investor</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/dhandho-investor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/dhandho-investor/</guid><description>Making investments is all about minimizing risk and maximizing returns. Learn all about Mohnish&apos;s &quot;Heads, I win; tails, I don’t lose much!&quot; approach.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fluent Forever</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/fluent-forever-book-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/fluent-forever-book-review/</guid><description>Gabriel shares his expeience and his research into the most effective ways of learning any foreign language. THe main idea of the book is to use an SRS like Anki. But there are a ton of other details that will help you excel in you journey of learning a language.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Doing Content Right</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/doing-content-right-book-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/doing-content-right-book-review/</guid><description>Steph is taking you on a journey from figuring out what you can write about all the way to earning money from it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Economical Writing</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/economical-writing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/economical-writing/</guid><description>Even though this book is titled and marketed as a book for economists, in reality, it can help anyone to improve their writing (especially, nonfiction writers).</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Four Thousand Weeks</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/4000-weeks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/4000-weeks/</guid><description>Great book about our relatinship with time and productivity. The core idea is that we are to consumed by the idea of being at maximum productivity and that harms us and stops from enjoying life.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Real</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/getting-real/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/getting-real/</guid><description>Building software doesn’t need a large team, huge budget, or a perfect plan up front. Products should do less and work smarter by focusing on solving real problems and evolving with user feedback. The key is to create sustainable software by making smart, incremental improvements that truly meet users’ needs.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Growth Levers and How to Find Them</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/growth-levers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/growth-levers/</guid><description>A practical playbook for finding outsized growth by shifting from optimization to discovery—map the customer journey (Struggle → Search → Selection), build a growth model (North Star, key drivers, rate‑limiting step), and run hypothesis‑driven sprints to do fewer, bigger things that truly move the needle.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Happy Sleeper</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/happy-sleeper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/happy-sleeper/</guid><description>This book will help you to teach your baby to fall asleep by himself. That&apos;s it, that&apos;s the premise on the book. And let me tell you... It delivers. The earlier you begin the better.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Take Smart Notes</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/how-to-take-smart-notes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/how-to-take-smart-notes/</guid><description>If you&apos;ve heard the term &apos;Zettelkasten&apos; flying around recently, then you might be wondering what is all the rage. Well, this book pretty much started this trend. Sönke Ahrens describes in great detail the note-taking process through which Niklas Luhmann was able to achieve phenomenal productivity in writing academic papers. Good news is that you can use this method too.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Read a Book</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/how-to-read-a-book/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/how-to-read-a-book/</guid><description>This book is a must read for anyone who wants to read better. It&apos;s not easy to read, but it&apos;s worth it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hunt, Gather, Parent</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/hunt-gather-parent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/hunt-gather-parent/</guid><description>I am a huge fan of this book. This is **the** book I&apos;m recommending to all parents. I believe that this book can make the whole world a better place just by helping parents figure out how to have fun with their kids and not be all tires and depressed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lessons of History</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/lessons-of-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/lessons-of-history/</guid><description>The Lessons of History is a fantastic book, the best one I read in 2020. It is undervalued. While people talk about recent bestsellers this gem is waiting to be read. Any person can gain valuable insight and knowledge from this book.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Millionaire Fastlane</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/millionaire-fastlane/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/millionaire-fastlane/</guid><description>The Millionaire Fastlane is a highly motivational guide advocating entrepreneurship and smart money management. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their life financially.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Never Enough</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/never-enough/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/never-enough/</guid><description>Andrew Wilkinson&apos;s autobiography on his path to become an accidental billionaire. Captivating and full of little golden nuggets to pick up by aspiring entrepreneurs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/i-have-a-toddler/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/i-have-a-toddler/</guid><description>Good book about raising a toddler. If you are reading this book, you are probably running into some difficulties with your kid. This book won&apos;t solve them in the way you are hoping, but it will still help.</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pragmatic Thinking and Learning</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning/</guid><description>This books is an amazing resource for upping you mental game. It&apos;s super dense, so you might not finish it in one sitting, nor should you. If you implement at least 5% of the advice in this book you will drastically improve as a human being.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Richest Man In Babylon</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/richest-man-in-babylon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/richest-man-in-babylon/</guid><description>&apos;The Richest Man In Babylon&apos; is a collection of short and educational stories. These stories tell you about people living in ancient Babylon. Each story teaches you a small lesson on how to make progress towards financial stability.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Show Your Work</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/show-your-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/show-your-work/</guid><description>This is a good, solid read. I wouldn&apos;t call it life changing for me, more life upkeeping. For some people it can be life changing though. In this book, Austin argues that we should all share our work. He will share a lot of useful advice for doing work in public. Austin is very convincing. If you never considered sharing your work, by the end of this books, you will be convinced.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Skill Called Luck</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/a-skill-called-luck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/a-skill-called-luck/</guid><description>A practical guide to actively increasing your &apos;luck surface area&apos; by focusing on hustle, strategic setup, cultivating creativity, and building capacity. Learn to engineer serendipity through networking, working in public, optimizing your environment, and developing key skills and a positive mindset.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Start Small, Stay Small</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/start-small-stay-small/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/start-small-stay-small/</guid><description>A practical, market-first playbook for developers to bootstrap software startups without external funding. Walling stresses niches, marketing over features, and measurable validation (keyword research, AdWords tests). Build a high-converting sales site, grow an email list, price with tiers, and use VAs/outsourcing and documented processes to scale. Set clear goals (e.g., first $500 MRR), iterate quickly, and focus on verticals where you can be the best.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Art and Business of Online Writing</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/the-art-and-business-of-online-writing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/the-art-and-business-of-online-writing/</guid><description>Wonderful book about writing content that people will resonate. Very simple approach, but that is not to say it is not easy. It will take work to implement, but I have no doubt it will work.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Art of Learning</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/the-art-of-learning-book-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/the-art-of-learning-book-review/</guid><description>In this book the reader is taken on a journey of learning, improving, and personal growth. Josh is an incredible human, who achieved great success in different fields all thanks to his ability to learn. In this book, we get to see stories from his life as he tells them and see what is it that makes a great learner.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Code Book</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/code-book/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/code-book/</guid><description>This is a great intro into the world of Cryptography, if that is something you are into. Reads as easy as a novel.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Great Conversation</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/the-great-conversation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/the-great-conversation/</guid><description>This is an intro book to the Great Books of the Western World series. Authors do a great job of convincing you to invest your life in pursuing this series, that they refer to as Liberal Education.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Minimalist Entrepreneur</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/minimalist-entrepreneur/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/minimalist-entrepreneur/</guid><description>This is my favorite book on the topic of entrepreneurhip. It doesn&apos;t matter what stage you are at, whether just trying to find an idea to work on, or already have a profitable company, you will surely learn something new from Sahil.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Phoenix Project</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/phoenix-project/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/phoenix-project/</guid><description>Great book to listen to while doing chores. A lot of the principles have penetrated the tech industry, so you will be familiar with what this book has to offer. However, you should still give it a try, since there aren&apos;t many book like that one. A fictious story about DevOps practices. THat&apos;s pretty cool and unique.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Way of Superior Man</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/way-of-superior-man/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/way-of-superior-man/</guid><description>David Deida explores the most important issues in men&apos;s lives—from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality and relationships—to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unf*ck Your Sales</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/unfck-your-sales/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/unfck-your-sales/</guid><description>A practical framework for B2B sales built around four constraints—reach, resonance, timing, and trust—using inversion and the Theory of Constraints to find and fix the single bottleneck in your pipeline.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Buddhism is True</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/why-buddhism-is-true/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/why-buddhism-is-true/</guid><description>Why Buddhism is True feels a little too watery, however I can&apos;t judge it fully since I haven&apos;t finished it. The reason I did was that after Chapter 7 I wasn&apos;t getting any new information, it felt like 7 chapters of the same thing.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Version Control your Django project</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/django-version-control/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/django-version-control/</guid><description>In this post, we will be talking about version control and the best practices when it comes to Django projects.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First Javascript Experience</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/first-javascript-experience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/first-javascript-experience/</guid><description>Sharing my first epxerience with Javascript. Had to add some action to my new web app.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Managing a Django Project with Poetry</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/managing-django-with-poetry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/managing-django-with-poetry/</guid><description>Poetry is relatively new packaging and dependency manager. It makes it very easy to upload libraries to PyPI, manage dependencies visually, and has a couple of handy features. Today, I&apos;m not going to do a deep dive into how Poetry works and all its features. Today I just want to focus on how to configure it for a Django project.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adding Scripts to Specific Pages with Gridsome / Vue</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/gridsome-page-scripts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/gridsome-page-scripts/</guid><description>How do I add script tag to specific pages only? In this post I show how I integrated hypothes.is only on my article pages.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Create Smarter &amp; Better Git Commits with AI</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/commit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/commit/</guid><description>Learn how to automate Git commit messages using AI and Bash scripting. This tutorial shows you how to create meaningful, consistent commits with minimal effort.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to create an Ethereum Token with Python (ERC20)</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/creating-ethereum-token-with-python/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/creating-ethereum-token-with-python/</guid><description>This tutorial teaches you how to create/develop your own Ethereum token (ERC20) with Python on Polygon Network.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting data to home page with Django</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/django-get-context-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/django-get-context-data/</guid><description>In this post I show how to use get_context_data(). You might need it to display &apos;latest posts&apos; on your &apos;home page&apos;.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analyzing FIFA 19 data (I). Data Cleaning with Pandas and Numpy</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/fifa-data-cleaning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/fifa-data-cleaning/</guid><description>My first start-to-end Data Science project. I am going to be looking at FIFA 19 player database. In this part I talk about Data Cleaning.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analyzing FIFA 19 data (II). Data Exploration and Visualization</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/fifa-data-exploration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/fifa-data-exploration/</guid><description>My thoughts on the Open Source community and the culture behind it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analyzing FIFA 19 data (III). Machine Learning and Prediction</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/fifa-machine-learning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/fifa-machine-learning/</guid><description>In this post we are going to apply some basic machine learning on our clean dataset. We are going to focus on using Scikit Learn</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adding a dictionary to a list of dictionaries in Python</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/list-of-dicts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/list-of-dicts/</guid><description>I have encountered a problem where I was not able to append a dictionary to a list. In this post, I will explore this issue and show how to bypass that.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>List of SEO Meta Tags I Use</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/list-of-seo-metatags/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/list-of-seo-metatags/</guid><description>SEO Metatags I use in my articles... Done for my personal future references, since there are no such posts available online that are not overSEOed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a Maker Widget with TailwindCSS</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/tailwindcss-maker-widget/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/tailwindcss-maker-widget/</guid><description>In this post we are making a simple Maker Widget with TailwindCSS.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Making your first Open Source Contribution</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/open-source-contributions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/open-source-contributions/</guid><description>Making your first open source contribution. There is nothing to be scared about! We&apos;ll got through this together.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Migrating to a Custom User Model mid-project in Django</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/custom-user-model-mid-project-django/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/custom-user-model-mid-project-django/</guid><description>Whenever you building a site with Django that will have user authentication, it is recommended to create a Custom User Model, before the first migration. Sometimes you forget to do that. In this case you have to follow a strict procedure, which I&apos;ll show you in the post.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Multiple Graphql Queries on a Single Page with Gridsome</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/multiple-gridsome-queries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/multiple-gridsome-queries/</guid><description>Ever wonder how include multiple queries on the same page, when using Gridsome? Well, this is how.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OpenClaw with Docker: Simple, Repeatable Deployment Guide</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/openclaw-with-docker-practical-setup-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/openclaw-with-docker-practical-setup-guide/</guid><description>Deploy OpenClaw with Docker using a small custom Dockerfile, persistent volumes, and a WebSocket-ready proxy. Focused on deployment only.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Setting up Python virtual environment (for a Django Project)</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/django-venv/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/django-venv/</guid><description>How to set up a virtual environment for your Django Project, or any other Python project, for that matter.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Virtual Environment with Jupyter Notebook</title><link>https://www.rasulkireev.com/jupyter-venv/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.rasulkireev.com/jupyter-venv/</guid><description>If you are using a virtual environment, you might have ome issues with Jupyter Notebook. In this post we go through proper Jupyter Setup with venv.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>