📚 Books
Handpicked book recommendations with summaries and key takeaways
The Art of Thinking Clearly
A sharp, practical guide to the 99 cognitive biases that silently sabotage your decisions. Rolf Dobelli reveals how survivorship bias, sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, and other thinking errors lead us astray — and how to avoid them for clearer, better choices in life and business.
Read more →The Magic of Thinking Big
A practical, optimistic guide to achieving extraordinary success by believing in yourself and daring to think bigger. David J. Schwartz shows that success is determined not by the size of your brain, but by the size of your thinking.
Read more →The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness. Morgan Housel explores the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important topics.
Read more →✍️ Insights
Thoughtful articles on technology, startups, and productivity
Article 200: A Letter to My Twins — Why Dad Builds Things
The 200th article on NoteArc Insights isn't about code or business. It's a letter to my twin children — explaining why their dad spends hours at a keyboard, why he builds businesses that might fail, and why he writes articles that might never be read. It's about the why behind everything.
Read more →Legacy Code for Future Generations: Writing Software That Outlives You
Most software is written to solve today's problem. Great software is written to be understood, maintained, and evolved by developers who haven't been hired yet. This philosophical and practical guide covers writing code that ages gracefully — becoming an asset rather than a liability.
Read more →Open Source Contributions: How to Start, What to Contribute, and Why It Matters
Open source is the global commons of software — and contributing to it is one of the highest-leverage career activities a developer can pursue. This practical guide covers how to find projects, make meaningful contributions, and build reputation through open source work.
Read more →India's SaaS Opportunity: Why Indian Developers Should Build for the World
India is the world's third-largest SaaS ecosystem. Freshworks, Zoho, Chargebee, and Postman prove that Indian developers can build products that compete globally. The opportunity window for bootstrapped SaaS is wide open — here's why, and how to enter it.
Read more →The Skills That Will Matter in 2030: A Developer's Preparation Guide
React might be replaced. Go might be niche. But the thinking skills that great developers possess — system design, business understanding, communication, and adaptability — compound regardless of technology shifts. This forward-looking guide identifies the durable skills worth investing in now.
Read more →Building NoteArc: The Technical Architecture Behind This Platform
NoteArc isn't just a blog — it's a platform built with Next.js, optimized for SEO, designed for scale, and architected by a developer who's also the content creator. This behind-the-scenes look at NoteArc's technical architecture explains every architectural decision and why it was made.
Read more →💻 Tutorials
Step-by-step guides — learn by building real projects
Go Fiber
Get started with Go Fiber — the fastest Go web framework inspired by Express.js. Learn what Fiber is, why it's blazing fast, how to install it, create your first server, and understand the core concep
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MongoDB Tutorial
Learn how to install MongoDB on Windows, macOS, and Linux. This guide covers downloading the Community Edition, choosing between MSI/Homebrew/APT, verifying the installation, and running the MongoDB s
17 episodesWhy NoteArc?
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