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As my mentor Robert Greene put it, “It starts by wanting to create a classic.” Phil Libin, the cofounder of Evernote, has a quote I like to share with clients: “People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.”
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
The best way to solve a management problem, he believed, was through “creative confrontation”—by facing people “bluntly, directly, and unapologetically.”*
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. But the actual measured magnitudes have astounded all of us. In one of their studies, Sackman, Erikson, and Grant were measuring performances of a group of experienced programmers. Within just this group the ratios between best and worst p
... See moreFrederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
healthy proportion of bottom-up OKRs—roughly
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
El gran científico de la computación Donald Knuth abandonó el correo electrónico en 1990 diciendo que, si bien es “maravilloso para aquellas personas cuya función en la vida es estar en la cima de las cosas... mi función en la vida es estar en la base de las cosas”, realizar investigación fundamental que requiere “largas horas de estudio y concentr
... See moreAlex Soojung-Kim Pang • Enamorados de la distracción (Spanish Edition)
The best line of code is the one you don’t write.
Sandro Mancuso • Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)
A software project is not a sprint; it is a marathon. A team that leaps off the starting line and starts racing as fast as it can will burn out long before finishing. In order to finish quickly, the team must run at a sustainable pace; it must conserve its energy and alertness. It must intentionally run at a steady, moderate pace.