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"If you want to succeed, increase your failure rate" - Thomas J Watson
"Dead fish go with the flow" - Andy Hunt
"Be hard to beat, but easy to like" - Me :)
I can't recall who said this to me as a teenager, but at the time it felt wrong! I had not yet much experience with either. Navigating the adult world changed that, but I didn't grow beyond a vague feeling of the need for caution in delicate human matters. It was only when I learned about crypography, security and distributed systems, that I understood the value, and indeed necessity, of having attacker models. I realised that the social world, too, has benign and adversarial parts (and many shades inbetween): for example you can trust your mathematics teachers nearly 100% when they talk about mathematics, but you should probably be prepared for being taken advantage off in financial transactions, whence the aphorism.
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. - Steve Jobs And in similar vain: Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction? I colle…
Regarding your last link:
I have something similar scattered all over text files in multiple drives and very rarely see them. Yours is organized, in one place and easy to see your intentions if you need to.
Maybe everyone should look at your list once in a while. Just reading them has a very strong emotional effect for me.
Bookmarked!
Thank you
"Real laziness is doing it properly the first time." -Instructor at a field bus training course I did sometime around 2000.