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the quality of your life is shaped by whom you want to impress
Morgan Housel • Lifestyles
Questions are the answers you might need
Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
Readwise
lifestyle and Doing important work
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, and Mobi Ho
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
01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140
To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool.
paulgraham.com • How to Do What You Love
What is technology? It’s technique. It’s the way we all do things. And when you discover a way to do things, its value is multiplied by all who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod rather than the fish. That’s the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you
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Act on your highest excitement
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)
To the best of your ability
Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it
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