Link to the book Website of the book The book was recommended on a podcast called “The Random Show” hosted by Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose. Review The book is about an American company called Zappos. It is written by the CEO of the company, Tony Hsieh’s. He describes his challenges and victories he encountered whilst building the company which later was acquired by Amazon, in Amazon stock worth 1.2 Billion dollars. Zappos is an E-commerce website mainly focused in the shoe business. Tony invested

Link to the book I’ve read a lot of different books about health and nutrition since I started reading a lot. I came across Dr. Hyman’s book via a podcast from Lewis Howes where Dr. Hyman was interviewed talking about nutrition. You can find the podcast here . Review The book starts off by reviewing past research about the causes of a term called Metabolic Syndrom . The term is often used to describe the following diseases originating from a bad diet and unhealthy habits : - Obesity - Elevated b

Almost everyone makes them, but almost no one can stick to them. Myself included, for the last years i have been consistently making new years resolutions, some have turned out great and some have failed miserably. The biggest mistake is that people tend to make overblown goals that require a complete change of their habits. Habits which were obtained over many years are not that easy to break, just with the beginning of a new year. For example, someone who never exercises makes the resolution t

In this Post, I will show you how you can build a stateless WordPress Setup in a Docker container. The container can later be used in production or as a reproducible development environment. Motivation My main motivation in building a stateless Docker container was to be able to deploy and scale the container without having to set up a clustered filesystem. For this to work, we have to make some modifications and give up some flexibility, in favor of much better maintainability and easier scalab

Update: This post does not reflect my current setup anymore, check this post to find my new Setup . Welcome to my first Post on my personal Blog. In this Post, I’m going to outline how I built this Blog and what technologies and hosting setup I’m using. You maybe already guessed on which platform this Blog is built on, just by looking at the current Theme or checking the source of this page. The Blog is running on WordPress. WordPress is easy to setup and really extensible. In the past, I’ve tri