Anti-life advice
Ways of life to avoid
Anti-life advice
I wanted to share this with you because I know a lot of aspiring software devs worry about whether they have enough passion to succeed as a developer. Is programming really for you if you don’t wake up on Saturday morning excited to learn about TypeScript or hack on a side project?
Josh Comeau • “I Don’t Get Excited About It”
At this point, I think that following your passion is nearing anti-life advice…
Jose’s life script required chaos because without it he would be out of a job.
Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy
There’s also a great anecdote from Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about how physics used to delight him when he used to play with it, but then it started to disgust him when he got burdened by this idea that he was obligated to advance the future of science. That he was supposed to be doing “important” work.
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visakan veerasamy • Article
I fall into the trap of optimizing all the time…
Long before he made movies, after he dropped out of community college, Cameron spent about ten years working low-wage manual labor jobs. He was a truck driver, a school bus mechanic, a high school janitor, a precision tool and die machinist, and so on. “It was a long period of frustration for me in this kind of blue-collar life,” he said. “I was fr
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The more I learn, the straight forward path is the way of the few. Meandering success is more likely.
For this reason, I suspect that many of my friends who write and publish rapidly are shortchanging themselves. They generate texts filled with hidden doors and move on before they’ve opened them.
I used to write like a maniac, I’m now trying to slow down for this reason.
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how t... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
I feel this, but at the same time see myself slipping it into all the time.
The advice to avoid here is to “give it your all” as a rule. Only give your all to what really matters
The need for belonging twists into a form of fearful pre-rejection with the person experiencing an anxious aversion to the presence of others.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
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