Quotes
Notice what happens when you satisfy a craving, something small like piece of cake / chocolate. Do you really feel happier?
- Andy Puddicombe
"Measuring the wrong things is a fast path to disaster."
Jared Spool
Elon Musk:
“I believe in the physics approach to thinking.
You're always weighing the probabilities that something is true or not true, or that there may be a third explanation.
Be very open to new facts and changing your mind.” https://t.co/PMANNtY8y0
ELON CLIPSx.comWriting 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
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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”.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours
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