Quotes
“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
... See more“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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
... See moreNothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”
Charlie Wardle
To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.
“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”
Naval