Vaibhav Parekh
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Vaibhav Parekh
The stillness of mind & body in doing good work - those precious moments, just make life so much richer in that short period of time
"To create, one must first question everything. Never adopt someone else's conclusion without putting it to the test of your own reasoning and imagination."
- Eileen Gray
A sense of reality in the short run but hope over the long haul
- From ‘Do Hard Things’
If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
That beautiful moving place of taking action
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.
The Forbidden Zone
It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people... See more
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