Remember these things

• don’t play for chump change. Go big. what are you afraid of?
• don’t compete with people around you.
• when in doubt, read Taleb, Pirsig, ___.
• don’t explain yourself.
• use single handling
• triage ruthlessly. unclutter your life and time. “When in doubt, throw it out”.
• use barbell approach for bets; make many small bets and make your big BETS worth your time. If it isn’t scaring you, it isn’t a big BET.
• Co-workers and bosses are not usually your friends from Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice.
• Stick to the basics. Every. Single. Day.
  • Do your job.
  • Sweat the details.
  • Put the team first.
  • Be attentive.
  • Ignore the noise.
  • Speak for yourself
• Stack your skillsets (see Scott Adams) and this
  • be skill-stacker
• Better to have done something than wishing that you did
• Better not do things just for the sake of doing them. Barbell.
• Action <—> Rest. Yin <—> Yang
• A habit has three parts: {:situation, :action, :reward}
• ask questions; ask better questions; answer them; answer them yourself; answer them from first principles; discover new things while doing so. (Note: be weary of falling into ‘science’ fallacy here; remember many things are alchemy).