Christian Baaki
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Christian Baaki
... See moreThe heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle, the plaster, the scaffolding, the bricks and the dust all around him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to everyone who is unable to get out of town during the summer—all worked painfully upon the young man’s already overwrought nerves. The unbearable stench from
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
... See more“If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns, the world’s just uglier than it needs
There's a concept known as financial compounding, but most people don't know about intellectual compounding. Buffett and Munger employed this to great effect and to accumulate mental models such that they can make large decisions quickly. Intuition is simply reading a lot.
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The habit loop from James Clear: cue, craving, response, reward. Good habits need to be made obvious, attractive, and easy. Bad habits need to be made invisible, unattractive, and difficult
“There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend.
As for building something users love, here are some general tips. Start by making something clean and simple that you would want to use yourself. Get a version 1.0 out fast, then continue to improve the software, listening closely
... See morePaul Graham, Hackers and Painters
... See moreThere's also something humbling and awful about what's on the page is never as good as what's in your head and so if you keep it in your head it's safe and good and you're not going through this awful uncomfortable middle period … I think this is why people hang on to projects or write and rewrite them … there's a real ugliness to the early
... See moreIn other words, today’s cloud and mobile companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google — may very well be the GM, Ford, and Chrysler of the 21st century. The beginning era of technology, where new challengers were started every year, has come to an end; however, that does not mean the impact of technology is somehow diminished: it in fact means
... See moreHis nervous shudder had passed into a fever that made him feel shivering; in spite of the heat he felt cold. With a kind of effort he began almost unconsciously, from some inner necessity, to stare at all the objects before him, as though looking for something to distract his attention; but he did not succeed, and kept lapsing every moment into
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment