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Why Reading Is Hard
I have learned that there are two things that make reading hard. Unfamiliarity. The ideas in the book are bizarre to you because you haven’t encounter them before.
People Will Never Know Who You Are
All the people you have ever interacted with have a version of you in their mind. They formed a version of you with all the dialogues, thoughts and circumstances you shared with them.
This Antarctic Expedition Disaster Holds Key Leadership Lessons
Anyone can steer the ship but it takes a leader to chart the course. An excerpt from the book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
An African Proverb
Every morning in the Serengeti, a gazelle wakes up knowing that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will die. Every morning, the lion wakes up and it knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve and die.
Perfection is the Enemy of Progress
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
WET: Write Everything Twice
We have been conditioned that DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) has been the best approach for decades but there is overwhelming evidence of the contrary. They say DRY save you a lot of time and it becomes easier to maintain code.