Quotes

What I like most about deadlines is the whistling sound they make when the pass by.

If we strip everything else away, the reason we need an ability to learn is to help us find and obtain food. We need fuel to learn, and we need learning to find a source of fuel…’ (Ratey & Hagerman, 2009).

I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.

Georgia O'Keeffe

An unfortunate fact of corporate life is that a subset of your colleagues who claim to have “strong opinions, weakly held” in reality demonstrate “strong opinions, aggressively defended, rarely reconsidered, but happily changed if that’s what the bosses want”.

Our identity, our storyline, is created by what we repeat. It becomes what we believe.

Andy HS

If the problem is caused by the thinking mind, it won’t be solved with the thinking mind - always not good enough, internal story lines etc

Andy Headspace

The most successful people. . . often aren't directly pursuing conventional notions of success. They're working hard and persisting through difficulties because of their internal desire to control their lives, learn about their world, and accomplish something that endures.

Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, p. 60.

There is nothing wrong with having financial goals and achieving milestones, but these are simply means to an end. If you believe that your agency exists solely to make money, then you likely are falling short of your potential and cheating your employees of opportunities to realize theirs.

Paul Roetzer

Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphical design (original character design in games is gone), writing music (new melodies can be generated by clicking "refresh" and then improved), literature. You never start from scratch anymore. Which i

“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.”

OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI code