I’ve started officially managing a team at Booking.com since the February of last year. Since that time, I’ve started reading a lot of books to learn all the skills that I’m lacking. Recently, I started thinking of reviewing books that...

I recently read the book called Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solution, and I realized something alarming: if you have a perfect life, being an expat automatically leads to a few causes of...

Note: I gave a talk about this topic in the Go 1.8 Release Party in Amsterdam. You can listen to the recording of the presentation (courtesy of my wife), get the slides, or just keep reading this article. As you...

I’m trying to relocate as a completely blind back-end programmer, and I’ve been interviewed by some European companies in the last two months. I’ve failed at almost all of them except two, and my reason for writing this post isn’t...

As an Iranian, I am quite used to censorship. In fact, I browse the Internet while constantly switching IPs: I switch to a Canadian IP while paying for services, I switch to a US IP while buying books, and I...