Terence Faircloth
@atelierteee
Retired Professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. First computer was a TRS80 Model II; first app was Visicalc. Been at it ever since. Geezers can compute!
Terence Faircloth
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In my whole life I’ve never been good at something I wasn’t very interested in. It just doesn’t work. There’s no substitute for strong interest.
— Charlie Munger
“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
— Christopher Morley
The big print giveth. The small print taketh away.
There is no Past You to cling to, there is no Future You to worry about. There is just the Present You to take action. — Sahil Bloom
Mr. Rogers once said, “I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder.” Revelations probably swim past us all the time, we just fail to capture them in our relentless quest for the next byte of data or the next notification. The answers we look for are usually not invented but found. Truth never moves; when w... See more
Washington is a large assisted living community full of rich people who believe the world can’t get along without them and will never have to.
"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike
Impostor syndrome: “I don't know what I'm doing. It's only a matter of time until everyone finds out."
Growth mindset: "I don't know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out."
The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
—Adam Grant
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.