Anti-life advice

Ways of life to avoid

Half-Assing It With Everything You've Got

The advice to avoid here is to “give it your all” as a rule. Only give your all to what really matters

Jose’s life script required chaos because without it he would be out of a job.

Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy

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…

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.

It’s quite... See more

visakan veerasamy • Article

I fall into the trap of optimizing all the time…

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... See more

Ava • Why You Should Write More

I feel this, but at the same time see myself slipping it into all the time.

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.

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

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think

The more I learn, the straight forward path is the way of the few. Meandering success is more likely.