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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Adult Stuff: Things You Need to Know to Win at Real Life - Robert Boesel, Matt Moore</h1> |
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2020-02-09 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fun/">#fun</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/robert-boesel/">#robert boesel</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/matt-moore/">#matt moore</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2016/">#published:2016</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26544444-adult-stuff">GoodReads Summary</a>: |
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Sometimes your first steps into the "real world" send you falling flat on your |
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face. It's natural to be optimistic about new experiences, but most of us set |
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ourselves up only to be let down every time. And disappointment hurts like a |
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$%&*#.</p> |
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<p>News flash: You don't have to be an Einstein to survive adult life. You don't |
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even have to abandon your standards to get what you want. All you have to do |
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is keep your expectations realistic.</p> |
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★★★☆☆ |
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<p>Alright, right up front, let me say that it is weird to read a book about "How |
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to Survive Real Life When You Just Got Passed Your Teens and Now Need to Work |
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and Keep a Place and Have a Life" when you're 43. But here we are.</p> |
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<p>One thing the book does (although a bit too flourish for my taste) is to |
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destroy all those dreams of a perfect life: Oh, you're out of your parents |
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apartment? Sure, you can have that huge loft Tom Hanks have in "Big", or a |
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nice apartment like the ones in "Friends"? NOT! Oh, sharing with someone you |
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go fine? It will be like "Friends", every day! SIKE!</p> |
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<p>So, yeah, it is not that bad, but it is not a dream.</p> |
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<p>But instead of saying "Nope" all the time, the book tries to give some advice |
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on how to survive this dark times. I think it missed the point sometimes; for |
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example: dripping faucet? Hire someone. Why not buy two, play with one till |
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you understand how it fits and then try the other one. Sure, hiring someone |
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and watching over their shoulder how to do is something I do all this time -- |
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I'm not kidding here -- but you can also experiment yourself. You'd pay |
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double, but if you manage to understand how things work, you'll have a spare |
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and if you break it, at least you got it shouldn't work.</p> |
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