Johann Van Tonder

"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it — a costly myth."

W. Edwards Deming

"There’s really no replacement for spending time with these things, working towards a deeper mental model of the things they are good at and the things they are likely to mess up. Combining with domain knowledge of the thing you are working on is key too, especially as that can help protect you against them making things up!"
- Simon Willison, attem

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

"Doing things that shouldn't be done in the first place faster and cheaper does not in my view constitute progress."

Kevin Gray

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

Your core values are there already. Just slow down and let them be. Values like courage, authenticity, strength, innovation, creativity, wisdom, joy, love are inherent within you. You don't need to strive to create or find them; just remove the mental blocks that hinder their expression. These blocks usually stem from the mind, such as limiting

"Failure is a data point."

Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC