Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse to never have tried to succeed.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live — live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom.
Life happens only once and it’s not a race, enjoy your journey.
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Seven rules to receive 00 status
You don’t fear death, and won’t give into torture
You have Olympic level shooting skills
Even if you double-cross your own parents, you will never double-cross the organization
You have knowledge that would surprise even a scholar, and a sense of humor that would make even a bad girl grin
You have the sociability of a lamb, but remain a lone wolf
You have the highest level of experience with alcohol, gambling, cars and food
You can fall in love but you can never love
Success doesn’t come to people who never stumble; success comes to those who learn how to get up again.
No person is free who is not master of himself.
When the going gets tough and the hot tub beckons, Nowell suggests a visual meditation: Imagine, in as much detail as you can, how you’re going to feel when you reach your goal. “Experiencing that state of mind will push you further than any treat will.”
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision
You get what you work for, not what you wish for
eudaimonia – “a state in which you’re achieving your full human potential”
However, there is nothing like but one thing is there that can make you top rated programmer – Hard Work. It is not necessarily important to be an intelligent. Hard work overrides intelligence, believe me.
I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.
This becomes possible only if one keeps in mind more than one goal at a time, being aware at the same time of the conflicting desires.
When there are too many demands, options, challenges, we become anxious. When there are too few, we get bored.
The inner harmony of technlogically less advanced people is the positive side of their limited choices and of their stable repertory of skills, just as the confusion in our soul is due to unlimited opportunities.General Colin Powell
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.
Human intelligence: “imperfect, impulsive, chaotic, fluid, patterned”
“No [Alvarez doesn’t matter], he just has the belt,” McGregor said. “That’s it. That’s the only reason he’s there. After, I’m going to be struggling to see who’s next. Really, who the f–k is next? Who has gone out there time and time again, back-to-back-to-back, putting it all on the line and continuing to show up?
“They all say I’m all talk, but I look at them and say they’re all talk because I’m here fighting every week. I even had to fight a guy three times the size of me, and now, I’m back again. All they do is complain, b-tch and moan. You want this money? You want what I got? You have to put in the fking work. And as far as I’m seeing, nobody is putting in the work. Everyone is talking, everyone is thinking just cause Conor has it, I should have it. No, no. I didn’t always have it. There is a reason why I have it. I had to work my f–king bollocks off to get it, and here I am, still working while they’re talking.”
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S.Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They’ve been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.
One way might be to split envy in to:
Covetousness Resentment Sadness (Maybe ambition?)
Covetousness is really, really, bad. It will eat your soul. It is the desire to take what someone else has for yourself. “I want his car.” “I want his girlfriend.”
Resentment can be useful for a short term, but will eat you and cause bitterness if it festers. “I am not paid what I’m worth, I can get better elsewhere.” Is a useful statement if it is accurate and you act on it. But if you are lying to yourself or if you don’t act, it turns bad.
Sadness is a normal human emotion when things just aren’t how you hoped they were.
Ambition is the (mostly healthy within limits) impetus to achieve more. “I want a boyfriend who is nice the way his is.” “I want an even cooler car than anyone I know.” As long as you remain healthy and within your ethical system, ambition is good.
In the Arabic language there are two words for envy:
Ghira - What is known as jealousy or envy. Someone has something you want and you hate them for it. You wish you had it even if you took it from them.
Ghibta - Wishing you had what they had without taking it away. You’re happy for their success and wish you had a similar one.
When I was taught the two different words as a young person it really affected how I feel in these situations. When I get a reaction to someone having what I want, I make sure it stays within ghibta. It’s a case where my vocabulary shaped my thinking process.
All time. Everyday. You’ll know you understand it when you can build it, when you can see its structure.
“Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.” – Guy Steele
“The Representation Principle: Once a problem is described using an appropriate representation, the problem is almost solved.” – P. H. Winston
“Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structures], and I won’t usually need your [code]; it’ll be obvious.” – Fred Brooks
“I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” – Linus Torvalds
“Rule 5: Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.” – Rob Pike
“What are tensors? The facts of the universe.” – Lillian Lieber
Data science is a multi-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.[1][2] Data science is the same concept as data mining and big data: “use the most powerful hardware, the most powerful programming systems, and the most efficient algorithms to solve problems”.[3]
Data science is a “concept to unify statistics, data analysis, machine learning and their related methods” in order to “understand and analyze actual phenomena” with data.[4] It employs techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the context of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information science. Turing award winner Jim Gray imagined data science as a “fourth paradigm” of science (empirical, theoretical, computational and now data-driven) and asserted that “everything about science is changing because of the impact of information technology” and the data deluge.
Erdős signed his name “Paul Erdos P.G.O.M.” When he became 60, he added “L.D.”, at 65 “A.D.”, at 70 “L.D.” (again), and at 75 “C.D.”
P.G.O.M. represented "Poor Great Old Man"
The first L.D. represented "Living Dead"
A.D. represented "Archaeological Discovery"
The second L.D. represented "Legally Dead"
C.D. represented "Counts Dead"
It’s mostly subconscious/unconscious. This is why some people make it look easy - the ones who you describe as “folks who are disciplined, are ruthless executors, are self-motivated”.
It’s not actually that hard for them, they’re mostly just doing what comes naturally to them.
It may be they were able to develop these tendencies at a young age, or maybe it’s inherited traits from their parents.
This is the dark secret behind the self-help industry; it usually doesn’t work. At least not just by reading a book or attending a seminar or following a methodology.
Those programs will describe techniques that supposedly work for other highly successful people, but what they don’t tell you is that those other people don’t really need to follow any program, and the “discipline” they show is actually not the kind of discipline you’re punishing yourself with; for the people who make it look easy, it just flows naturally, as their subconscious mind is just attuned that way.
Here’s the thing: you can change your subconscious mind. There are specific techniques that enable you to do it. But they require consistent work over a long period of time, and a lot of patience with yourself along the way.
The main goal of such a program is to figure out just what it is you really want to do with your life - what objective is going to give you purpose and meaning and motivation, then to gradually remove the emotional/cognitive barriers that prevent you from working towards it with energy and focus.
The FAANGs support diversity. You can go to any of MIT, Stanford, CalTech, or Harvard.
If you’re brave enough to start, you may just be brave enough to win.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
You shouldn’t even give up. Like, what is that? If you give up, you’re a certified loser. If you try, you’re at least a winner in your book.
We can see through others only when we see through ourselves.
Lack of self-awareness renders us transparent; a soul that knows itself is opaque.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are… Yet it is remarkable that the very people who are most self-dissatisfied and crave most for a new identity have the least self-awareness. They have turned away from an unwanted self and hence never had a good look at it. The result is that those most dissatisfied can neither dissimulate nor attain a real change of heart. They are transparent, and their unwanted qualities persist through all attempts at self-dramatization and self-transformation.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
According to the competitive exclusion principle, if a reinforcing feedback loop rewards the winner of a competition with the means to win further competitions, the result will be the elimination of all but a few competitors.
This scene demonstrates so much.
the replicant's superiority making the leap that the human can't
the replicant showing mercy when the human showed none
the replicant wanting to live to experience things and beauty and the human wasting his gift of existence on nothing
the replicant trying to get the human to empathize with him, while the human never made the attempt to do so
The Tyrell Corp’s motto: more human than human. Easy to do when so many humans abandoned their humanity.
Popcorn kernels are exposed to the same oil and the same heat and yet they all pop at different times. Give yourself a chance to pop.
the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm’s success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic cycle at founding. The firms we started in recessions had an easier time finding talent, controlling costs, and getting immediate feedback about if this thing worked as clients/consumers held their purse strings closed. Then, armed with a battle-tested value proposition, as the recession ended, we enjoyed the afterburner of confidence to spend more and try new things.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The secret of success is the capacity to survive failure
Programming can be a delight, a font of inspiration, of making better things and perhaps even making things better. Or it can be just another job. Give it the chance to be more, even if that involves quitting the job and living cheap in a cabin in the woods. Also, learn a few quite different things very deeply; there’s too much quick, shallow learning of redundant stuff.
Art is never finished, only abandoned
Random generators are an easy catalyst to new ideas
Deadlines are relief from your burden