Do it right, first fucking time.
Personally, I'd go with: "Make it work, make it right, make it fast"
Or: "Do it, do it well, do it better".
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#182Play iterated games. - Naval All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
Why does the navy care about iterated games? I guess you can think of war and international affairs as an iterated game, but it seems weird.
naval is the mononym for Naval Ravikant, a well known investor
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I'd go with: "Make it work, make it right, make it fast"
Or: "Do it, do it well, do it better".
I've always thought of it as "it's easier to make a working thing fast that it is to make a fast thing work" - which I'm sure I picked up somewhere....
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#184I live life by the following words: "If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room"
I disagree so much with this popular motto that I have difficulty putting it into words. It reeks of egoism. Please, please replace it with: "If you are the smartest person in the room, teach until you no longer are."
Funny, I always took it to mean that you’re in a room by yourself.
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#185Don Quixote: "To attain to eminence in letters costs a man time, watching, hunger, nakedness, headaches, indigestions, and other things of the sort."
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#186“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain
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#187Instead of "live within your means", "live within your needs".
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#188The impossible costs a little more
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#189He who dares wins Rodney!
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#190Dont structure for the sake of structure. Structure to enable. Release the guardrails in execution.
In military ops in the mission field... these were some of the most surreal human experiences where the structure that trained us was no longer in place when we were executing. It's not a about dress-right-dress in execution... we were already enabled for what we needed to do & trust was instilled.