In Search of Great Automations
A short note on why useful automations depend on giving AI agents better data.
Rasul's Blog
Rasul's thoughts on things
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OpenClaw with Docker: Simple, Repeatable Deployment Guide
Deploy OpenClaw with Docker using a small custom Dockerfile, persistent volumes, and a WebSocket-ready proxy. Focused on deployment only.
Unf*ck Your Sales
A practical framework for B2B sales built around four constraints—reach, resonance, timing, and trust—using inversion and the Theory of Constraints to find and fix the single bottleneck in your pipeline.
The Cold Email Manifesto
Highlights on building effective cold email campaigns: hyper-specific offers, strong case studies, targeting 'Golden Geese' companies, iterative testing, follow-ups, and scaling with deliverability best practices.
A Skill Called Luck
A practical guide to actively increasing your 'luck surface area' by focusing on hustle, strategic setup, cultivating creativity, and building capacity. Learn to engineer serendipity through networking, working in public, optimizing your environment, and developing key skills and a positive mindset.
Burnout is about moving forward
Feeling burned out? The solution isn't rest—it's momentum. Making progress in any area of your life can break the burnout cycle and get you moving forward again.
Cleanapp and Fast Shipping
Building and deploying Cleanapp in just a few hours using Django CookieCutter starter and AI-assisted coding. How the right tools and approach can turn an idea into a live product incredibly fast.
There is Always Another Way
Rules and limitations can be overcome through creativity and finding alternative categories or approaches.
Start Small, Stay Small
A practical, market-first playbook for developers to bootstrap software startups without external funding. Walling stresses niches, marketing over features, and measurable validation (keyword research, AdWords tests). Build a high-converting sales site, grow an email list, price with tiers, and use VAs/outsourcing and documented processes to scale. Set clear goals (e.g., first $500 MRR), iterate…
Growth Levers and How to Find Them
A practical playbook for finding outsized growth by shifting from optimization to discovery—map the customer journey (Struggle → Search → Selection), build a growth model (North Star, key drivers, rate‑limiting step), and run hypothesis‑driven sprints to do fewer, bigger things that truly move the needle.
February 2025
Bringing back monthly reviews. February 2025 was pretty good.
Hunt, Gather, Parent
I am a huge fan of this book. This is **the** book I'm recommending to all parents. I believe that this book can make the whole world a better place just by helping parents figure out how to have fun with their kids and not be all tires and depressed.
Getting Real
Building software doesn’t need a large team, huge budget, or a perfect plan up front. Products should do less and work smarter by focusing on solving real problems and evolving with user feedback. The key is to create sustainable software by making smart, incremental improvements that truly meet users’ needs.
Throw Away Your Code
Discover why removing dead code is essential for maintainable software, better debugging, and team productivity. Learn practical strategies for identifying and eliminating unused code.
Create Smarter & Better Git Commits with AI
Learn how to automate Git commit messages using AI and Bash scripting. This tutorial shows you how to create meaningful, consistent commits with minimal effort.
2025 Goals
In this post, I want to publicly list all my 2025 goals. This will help keep me accountable and more structured. Though I doubt I will be consulting it often.
2024 in Review
My 2024 in Review I was very sad that I didn't finish this post last year. I hope to keep the tradition in the future.
How to Read a Book
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to read better. It's not easy to read, but it's worth it.
Gateway to Great Books
In this post I'll be listing the works from the "Gateway to Great Books" series that I'll be reading to keep track of my progress.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
This books is an amazing resource for upping you mental game. It's super dense, so you might not finish it in one sitting, nor should you. If you implement at least 5% of the advice in this book you will drastically improve as a human being.
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Wonderful book about writing content that people will resonate. Very simple approach, but that is not to say it is not easy. It will take work to implement, but I have no doubt it will work.
Never Enough
Andrew Wilkinson's autobiography on his path to become an accidental billionaire. Captivating and full of little golden nuggets to pick up by aspiring entrepreneurs.
The Code Book
This is a great intro into the world of Cryptography, if that is something you are into. Reads as easy as a novel.
The Dhandho Investor
Making investments is all about minimizing risk and maximizing returns. Learn all about Mohnish's "Heads, I win; tails, I don’t lose much!" approach.
My First Acquisition
After years of failures, I finally bought my first site.
The Anthology of Balaji
Great book for people interested in optimistic high-tech future. If you are a 'side-project' person, you'll get many ideas from this book.
Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler
Good book about raising a toddler. If you are reading this book, you are probably running into some difficulties with your kid. This book won't solve them in the way you are hoping, but it will still help.
My Notes on the Declaration of Independence
I finally read the Declaration of Independence and here are my thoughts on it.
The Algebra of Wealth
Great guide to building financial security in our modern, tech-driven world. Cuts through the bullshit and just speaks plain facts.
The Happy Sleeper
This book will help you to teach your baby to fall asleep by himself. That's it, that's the premise on the book. And let me tell you... It delivers. The earlier you begin the better.
Four Thousand Weeks
Great book about our relatinship with time and productivity. The core idea is that we are to consumed by the idea of being at maximum productivity and that harms us and stops from enjoying life.
List of SEO Meta Tags I Use
SEO Metatags I use in my articles... Done for my personal future references, since there are no such posts available online that are not overSEOed.
You are the Problem
We always blame the other person for being hard to deal with, but it is likely that you are the problem.
On the Golden Balance in Life
It pays to approach your life with the golden balance in mind.
July 2023
What I did in July with my side projects.
Count of Monte Cristo
This is a beautiful and engaing story of wrongful imprisonment and a desire for a revenge. At times a little slow, but exciting enough in other parts to fully compensate.
Get a Newsletter
You really need to get a newsletter it is the best way to keep up with your online friends.
The Millionaire Fastlane
The Millionaire Fastlane is a highly motivational guide advocating entrepreneurship and smart money management. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their life financially.
Most Advice is Wrong
I think that most advice online is bad. You shouldn't listen to anyone but yourself. Here is why...
Building a Second Brain
Building a Second Brain is a great PKM approach created by Tiago Forte. He has been teaching that course for a while now and has been publishing for many years at Forte Labs. This books is a collection of methods, techniques and ideas that he has formulated over those years. This book is perfect for someone who hasn't yet started collecting thoughts and ideas in a Second Brain.
10 Years of Great Books
I'm starting a 10 Year Reading Plan proposed by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler in their book "The Great Conversation". You should join me so that we can learn together better.
The Great Conversation
This is an intro book to the Great Books of the Western World series. Authors do a great job of convincing you to invest your life in pursuing this series, that they refer to as Liberal Education.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
This is my favorite book on the topic of entrepreneurhip. It doesn't matter what stage you are at, whether just trying to find an idea to work on, or already have a profitable company, you will surely learn something new from Sahil.
The Way of Superior Man
David Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives—from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality and relationships—to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom.
The Phoenix Project
Great book to listen to while doing chores. A lot of the principles have penetrated the tech industry, so you will be familiar with what this book has to offer. However, you should still give it a try, since there aren't many book like that one. A fictious story about DevOps practices. THat's pretty cool and unique.
Socrates is Kind of a D*ck
In this post, I want to share my opinion on Socrates' style of conversation and argumentation, and why I think he is being a little bit of a dick.
Apology
The Apology is Plato's record of the speech given by Socrates in court as he tries to defend himself in 399BCE against the accusations of 'corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes'.
2022 Goals
In this post, I want to publicly list all my 2022 goals. This will help keep me accountable.
2021 in Review
This year I'm partly following Anthony Gustin's Annual Review process. In this post, I will share my responses to Steps 2 and 3. I will also share personal statistics that I was able to collect during the year.
Fluent Forever
Gabriel shares his expeience and his research into the most effective ways of learning any foreign language. THe main idea of the book is to use an SRS like Anki. But there are a ton of other details that will help you excel in you journey of learning a language.