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It has been only three weeks since last post and it is already time to think about new month and probably new year. Finished: Minimum Viable Spanish  (without Mexican) ! Easy Spanish • Conjugation  (but only present verbs) The Winds of Khalakovo That's it. Every other thing is still in progress. The Complete iOS 8 Course with Swift  57% Complete  The Swift Programming Language  ~21% Duolingo: English Duolingo: Spanish The Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal 19% I want to write a proper "Plans for 2015" post pretty soon so if anyone was reading this I wish you a Happy New Year! :)

My priorities have changed since  October , but first summary of what I have done. Finished: An Introduction to Programming in Go by Caleb Doxsey Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (4th Edition) (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass , Christian Keur Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam http://krzychukula.blogspot.com/2014/12/book-review-game-programming-patterns.html One-week vacation on Malta Give up: Guitar Reading Every day  Those were hard decisions to make, but inevitable. I had to prioritize. Progress: The Complete iOS 8 Course with Swift The Swift Programming Language " (Audio+) Hiszpański od podstaw " (322 new words that I have to practice every day) (Audio+) Advanced Vocabulary http://www.memrise.com/course/172359/1300-popularnych-fraz/ Duolingo: Sp...

Finished: Remote NoSQL Distilled Praktyczna Improwizacja Mistborn The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Corporation Reading Club , September 10 Failed: I planned vacation with my wife. It did not happen unfortunately. Plans for October: Creativity, Inc. : Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom Refresh Healthy Programmer Buy Mac Buy device (to read programming books) eg. iPadMini. (this probably has to wait for another month) Progress: Memrise - 24/32 levels (last month it had 26 levels) Duolingo - almost finished Guitar - I bought new acoustic guitar and hope to start proper lessons this Saturday. iOS Programming - 12/29 chapters (I hope to buy Mac this month to speed it up) Swimming - once a week (right now it is on hold due to back ache) Events: ReadingClub - October

Recently I stumbled upon really nice philosophy abbrevited  IDFAF that probably can make me more extrovert. Turns out being extrovertic makes introverts happier  so it might be something really good for me. In last couple of months I started to care too much about what people think. Even my colleagues noticed that I was much more pessimistic and introvertic.It is time to try something new. Finished: Getting Things Done by David Allen Your Brain at Work by David Rock Design of Everyday Things by Donal A. Norman Switch by Heath Brothers A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin Hooked by Nir Eyal The Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton Participated in Vocal Workshop I am no longer organizer of Meet.js Krakow Tai-Chi  given up js13kgames.com  given up Progress: Memrise - 19/26 levels Duolingo  Guitar (practicing basic chords) iOS Programming - 12/29 chapters Remote - page 119/250 (I ho...

I would say that my mindset changed a bit last month. I am really inspired by creative work and I always try to create something on my own. Unfortunately, it backfires most of the time and I end up with something that is not working or just impossible to do in my spare time. After reading " learn game development like woodworking " and " Steal Like an Artist " I feel better just going after the book, write examples and copy (I'm doing exactly that with "iOS Programming" book). I feel free from the urge to create something innovative that most of the time just made me too much stressed to do anything... It's ok to copy and recreate existing app ideas, you're going to learn a lot from the process. The same rule applies to all kinds of learning. While reading "Decisive" I really liked story from chapter 3 "Multitrack" about Ads designers. Both test groups get same amount of feedback but first group get asked to create onl...

Project/Game At the end of May I wanted to try idea from "First 20 Hours" . Unfortunately I must admit that it didn't work for me. Probably because I didn't want to give up on everything else I was doing and because of 'emotional' problems that he mentioned. Basically fear of failing, anxiety. I'm not sure but it's my guess. So what I managed to do? Memrise: http://www.memrise.com/course/48407/upper-intermediate-english/ http://www.memrise.com/course/70773/advanced-english-7/ http://www.memrise.com/course/81764/english-months/ http://www.memrise.com/course/3093/advanced-vocabulary-2/  (not all levels) http://www.memrise.com/course/86390/gsp-gowny-system-pamieciowy-2/ I managed to keep up with words I already learned and practiced them whenever memrise asked me to recall them. Duolingo: https://www.duolingo.com/course/en/pl/Learn-Angielski-Online I'm at level 9 in english right now. I'm trying to practice every ...

This month I managed to finish: Watched all How To Draw videos on HowCast What was good in these series is to see how eraser can be used to draw :) Rating: 5/10 The Tree Butcher by Andrzej Pilipiuk This is really nice collection of 12 short stories. Andrzej Pilipiuk have endless ideas how history could have been, how aliens may live and even how magic may work. This is really good book:) Rating: 8/10 Tricket by Kevin Hearne In my opinion this is best book in a series so far. For sure it is the longest :) Fast and easy to read, it's hard to resist reading when you start so it's really good to read on holiday :) Rating: 8/10 Trapped by Kevin Hearne This one fortunately starts at the good time, but I think a little that this book could be better. Ending was unexpected but probably explains why next book is called Hunted ;) From me: 6/10. The Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister. Autor: George R. R. Martin. This one is not really a ...