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how fast you learn is a lot more important than how much you know to begin with. So in general I say that people emphasize too much how much they know and not how fast they're learning.

Professor John Ousterhout • slope_vs_starting.md

Doing important work

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.” — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Doing important work and feature or a bug?

French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

lifestyle

"Clarity is freedom. Know what is important to you and it will grant you the freedom to ignore everything else." -James Clear

Doing important work

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

30 on 30 and lifestyle

Questions are the answers you might need

30 on 30

You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.

lifestyle and Doing important work

"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin

Human behavior and lifestyle

Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.” - Kyle Harrison via Trevor McKendrick newsletter

Doing important work and feature or a bug?