Quotes

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

“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”

Steve Blank

"There are a million opportunities. Things to say 'no' to, that you would've begged to have the opportunity to say 'yes' to only two years ago. So you're permanently readjusting the sensitivity on what constitutes a ‘hell yeah’. What you would have begged for yesterday is something you now need to learn to say 'no' to today."

#764 Modern Wisdom

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

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”

William Orton, President of Western Union (1876)

"Measuring the wrong things is a fast path to disaster."

Jared Spool

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).

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”.