Motion.
Everything changes when you're in motion.
Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned or created?
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#32I've got a bunch more, but these are some of my favorites ( after reading that it was for a mentee relationship, I had to remove some)
- You impact your environment, regardless of your participation, and even your presence
- Perception is a weak approximation for reality
- Value the opportunity to be wrong, because eventually you'll lose the privilege of being told so
- The greatest barrier to getting things done, is not doing things
Re: Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned or created?
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#34The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. - Ecclesiastes
Life does not always make sense, sometimes best efforts and best preparation fail. That is okay
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#35Never attribute to intelligence what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.
s/intelligence/malevolence/
Stupidity is more likely than bad actors. Usually.
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#36"If someone does something once, they will do it twice" This is in some ways depressing, but its always been true for me. Individual actions that are outside the realm of someones common patterns are extremely rare. So if they act in a certain way, expect that going forwards. Be cynical.
Maya Angelou said it like this: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Re: Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned or created?
#37„Getting better is just screwing up less“ - Adam Savage
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#38Never eat a grapefruit in front of a computer screen.
Story please.
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#39Doubt your own infallibility
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#40"It's lonely at the top in whatever you do"