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patience and heart is super important:- the death of a good idea is giving up on it too quickly. the death of motivation is letting your adhd get the better of you. it matters less what strategy you pick, more that you pick a consistent strategy and execute on it. Cut the people you work with some intellectual slack. approach every conversation as
... See more"I'm actually not that good at Git!" — a funny line from someone who wrote the book on it, but he continues. "I just understand what it's like to not understand something, and what it's like to get over that. I have a drive to understand how it works at a fundamental level so I can teach people."
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people tend to be either slow movers or fast movers and that seems harder to change. Being a fast mover is a big thing; a somewhat trivial example is that I have almost never made money investing in founders who do not respond quickly to important emails.
Ben Kuhn • Be Impatient
Instead, people’s biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage —i.e., to find and execute work that has a big impact-per-hour multiplier.
benkuhn.net • Impact, Agency, and Taste
Do you think the only time musicians play their instruments is when they are on stage? Do you think the only time that batters hit balls is during games? Do you think the only time lawyers give a closing is at trial? Of course not. These people are professionals; and professionals practice! Professionals study the minutia of their disciplines.... See more
Clean Coder Blog
Given this dichotomy, which of the two paths should you take? Be a real student and not start a startup, or start a real startup and not be a student? I can answer that one for you. Do not start a startup in college. How to start a startup is just a subset of a bigger problem you're trying to solve: how to have a good life. And though starting a... See more
Soo interesting but also so true… starting a startup is indeed a subset of having a good life. College has been very important to my figuring out wtf a good life will be
This is amazing self talk, ever since reading it I've been trying to DJ this into heavy rotation on my kids' mental playlist:
"Like almost everything in my life, iteration—one dumb step in front of the other, course-correcting as you go—is the only process I’m any good at."
- Barry Diller (from his... See more
Graham Duncanx.comI think of finding high-leverage work as having two interrelated components:
- Agency: i.e. some combination of the initiative/proactiveness to try to make things happen, and relentlessness and resourcefulness to make sure you’ll succeed.
- Taste: you need a good intuition for what things will and won’t work well to try. Taste is important both “in the
benkuhn.net • Impact, Agency, and Taste
On the other hand, I have gotten a ton better at programming in the last four years. Not through any specific piece of advice, or any weird trick. Rather, it’s come by constantly trying to learn small new things, make small tool improvements, make my models a little deeper, work a little faster, come up with slightly better ideas. By, literally,... See more