1. Never combine invoices - accounting bugs are difficult to spot and even harder to agree on. 2. Eye contact and thanking people mean more than you might think 3. Be wary of sales/persuasion people with good peripheral vision
Could you explain #3?
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#142The people you spend the most time with affect how you think and what you do.
I would add to this the following. You are the person you spend the most time around. You have power to affect your own outlook in small ways on a day to day basis. Added up over a long period of time can result in real change in outlook. I'm talking really tiny things like instead of saying "I'm bad at X" say "I haven't done X well before". Sort of brainwashing yourself into a growth mindset.
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#144Personal finance. I never took a budgeting class in high school and college, my parents lived paycheck to paycheck (still do), when I earned my first internship I was making over $1000 per pay period, that was a lot of money for someone who had only worked part time jobs for $10/hr before hand. By the time I got my second internship I earned more than my mother, who was the breadwinner. Once I was converted to full t…
Any particular advice on managing your finances that you're willing to share?
If you want to buy something and it will require you to run monthly balance on your credit card, you can't afford it. On the flip side, credit cards are a very powerful tool that should not be ignored.
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#145The closer you get to death:
- you care less about work and money
- you care more about family and relationships
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#146Keeping high quality in a code base either requires dedicated person/team.
And management. Look for quality management.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the context of this comment? I don't know who Jordan Peterson is or what he's done.
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Sort of. He didn't get fired and he is really highly cited and respected within his field.
Most of his life advice constitutes a rehash of stoicism.
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#148Accept all negative criticism advice as well as you possibly can. If it's just someone being an asshole it's very easy to know that and just ignore, but if it's real it's the most valuable feedback you can get.
This is not going to go well in the US or the British culture...
I'm an American and consider myself good at accepting criticism and using it to better myself. I'm not sure what you're trying to say, could you explain?
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#149Personal finance. I never took a budgeting class in high school and college, my parents lived paycheck to paycheck (still do), when I earned my first internship I was making over $1000 per pay period, that was a lot of money for someone who had only worked part time jobs for $10/hr before hand. By the time I got my second internship I earned more than my mother, who was the breadwinner. Once I was converted to full t…
Congrats on it taking just a few months. Some of us spend years in the "lifestyle" hole before waking up and getting a grip on finances.
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#150Sadly, after more than 20 years building software, _NEVER_ trust a business person. My faith in humanity had to have me bitten by this the hard way more than once.
I might give a softer version:
1) Never assume people will respect the value of your time and the fruits of your labor. Some people in particular are looking for related arbitrage opportunities. It isn't even necessarily malevolent, it can be just a frequent human limitation in how value is perceived. Though sometimes it is predatory to the point of malevolence.
2) Assume any future promised reward is unlikely to materialize when making your decisions (if it is not specified via contract, assume it will outright not happen). If a given course doesn't make 90% sense if a possible upside doesn't happen, then it doesn't make sense.