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Get a good chair, because you can’t always be motivated, and sometimes you have to sit on it until you’re done. — The grandfather of a friend, who had a work ethic that I share.
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How I learned the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
Did it ever happen to you that during a phone call you had to spell something? An airline code, an email, an invoice number, etc. At those situations, I always regretted not having learned the NATO phonetic alphabet. Flash forward to September 2019: I found myself in a talk about learning and memory techniques during […]
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When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. — Joel Spolsky, Don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.
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To learn to make something well can take your whole life. And it’s worth it. — Ursula K. Le Guin.
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If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki. Hat tip: Ann Dunwoody, Automattic Grand Meetup 2018.
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Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — The UNIX way, resurfaced decades later by Kent Beck.
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It seems to be much easier to make two small jumps than the one big jump in any kind of mental thinking. — Creative Thinking at Bell Labs (1952), Claude Shannon.
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Objectives are like a vaccine for fuzzy thinking. — Why the secret to success is setting the right goals, John Doerr.
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The magician’s assistant
Review of Ann Patchett’s book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.
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Forest Dark
Review of Nicole Krauss’ book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.
