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🎧 "For me, what I hate, if you want to tick me off, show up and tell me everything is low risk. That makes me believe you haven't understood your job, right? Don't make me laugh, don't make me feel good. Make me feel scared and then make me feel comfortable because you're dealing with all the risks. Don't come and say it's all low risk. It is not low risk, it's rocket science."
This episode is a masterclass on high-stakes decision making.
— Adventures in Astrophysics (YouTube)
EXPLORE YOUR CURIOSITY
★ "Additive solutions have sort of a privileged status—they tend to come to mind quickly and easily. Subtractive solutions are not necessarily harder to consider, but they take more effort to find."
— Solving Problems (Complement with The Power of Avoiding Stupidity)
★ "Beethoven became more original and brilliant as a composer in inverse proportion to his ability to hear his own — and others' — music. But maybe it isn't so surprising. As his hearing deteriorated, he was less influenced by the prevailing compositional fashions, and more by the musical structures forming inside his own head. His early work is pleasantly reminiscent of his early instructor, the hugely popular Josef Haydn. Beethoven's later work became so original that he was, and is, regarded as the father of music's romantic period. ... Deafness freed Beethoven as a composer because he no longer had society's soundtrack in his ears.."
A QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT
"I learned some useful things ... though they were mostly about what not to do. I learned that it's better for technology companies to be run by product people than sales people (though sales is a real skill and people who are good at it are really good at it), that it leads to bugs when code is edited by too many people, that cheap office space is no bargain if it's depressing, that planned meetings are inferior to corridor conversations, that big, bureaucratic customers are a dangerous source of money, and that there's not much overlap between conventional office hours and the optimal time for hacking, or conventional offices and the optimal place for it. But the most important thing I learned ... is that the low end eats the high end: that it's good to be the "entry level" option, even though that will be less prestigious, because if you're not, someone else will be, and will squash you against the ceiling. Which in turn means that prestige is a danger sign."
— Paul Graham
TINY THOUGHT
You're free when no one can buy your time.
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Stay safe,
Shane
P.S. This made me smile.
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