Moxie Marlinspike's career advice:
There’s no rush to get started early on a never-ending task.
Everything before a career has defined beginnings and endings. Elementary school, middle school, junior high, highschool, university. There’s always been a predefined end, and that contributes... See more
If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
I’m interested in the relationship between time and understanding. Some things I’ve learned in a split second: via embarrassment or deep regret for an impulsive mistake I made, or an epiphany surfaced at a lecture or in the middle of reading. Other things have taken me a long time
The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in... See more