flâneur

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  • Absolutely every decision—people, technology, operational, product—is a trade-off. Every trade-off should strike a balance between the right technical and business facets, developer and management teams, and products and end users. Making the right trade-off is an art.
    Hello, World! - Zerodha Tech Blog
  • I can’t strongly enough recommend setting off 20 hours a week to work on a project that forces you to learn and grow and meet new people. Most of us are awake some 110 hours a week, so 20 hours is not impossible. But it adds up in a surprising way if you keep at it for 3 years. I feel like I've grown into my body. I feel fifteen years older. In a good way.
    Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing - by Henrik Karlsson
  • Good thinking is about pushing past your current understanding and reaching the thought behind the thought. This often requires breaking old ideas, which is much easier to do when the ideas are as rigid as they get on the page. In a fluid medium like thought or conversation, you can always go, “Well, I didn’t mean it like that” or rely on the fact that your short-term memory is too limited for you to notice the contradiction between what you are saying now and what you said 12 minutes ago.
    How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlsson
  • “Hi. I’m Ted Mosby. In exactly 45 days from now, you and I are going to meet. And we’re going to fall in love. And we’re going to get married and we’re going to have two kids. And we’re going to love them and each other so much. All that is 45 days away. But I’m here now, I guess, because I want those extra 45 days. With you. I want each one of them. And if I can’t have them, I’ll take the 45 seconds before your boyfriend shows up and punches me in the face. Because I love you. I’m always going to love you. Until the end of my days. And beyond”
    find your person & marry them
  • When it comes to fear, it's important to acknowledge that it is a natural response to the unknown and the possibility of failure. Instead of letting fear paralyze you, use it as a motivator to push yourself forward. Recognize that fear is a normal part of the journey and that it can actually fuel your determination.
    Fear and confidence
  • The burden of knowledge claims that new ideas inherently get harder to find because you have to spend more time learning more old ones before you’re ready to expand the frontier.
    Against the Burden of Knowledge - The Seeds of Science
  • Until last fall, I had not seen anyone properly articulate the mental moves that make writing a powerful tool for thought. Writing advice is usually focused on more superficial parts of the craft. Whatever I knew about thinking on the page, I had picked up through trial and error and conversations with other writers.
    How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlsson
  • Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you?
    Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you? | Hacker News
  • The Happiness Trap How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT By Russ Harris · 2008
    The Happiness Trap - Google Books
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding