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Literature at best. Self-help at worst.\n\n- Copying others is a good way to start but not to end.\n\n## About the importance of continuity\n\n- Consistency is more important than quantity.\n\n- Average returns sustained over an above-average period of time yield extraordinary results.\n\n- A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.\n\n- We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day, and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade.\n\n- Focus on directions rather than destinations.\n\n- Good things happen slowly, bad things happen fast.\n\n## How to deal with others\n\n- Treating a person to a meal never fails.\n\n- Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.\n\n- Hate is the poison you drink and hope that someone else might die.\n\n- Accept compliments, don't deflect them.\n\n- You can't reason someone who can't reason.\n\n- Being extremely polite to rude people is the best response.\n\n- Getting cheated occasionally is a small price, because when you trust, they generally treat you best.\n\n- Don't treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.\n\n- You see only a small part of another person, and they see only a small part of you.\n\n- Promptness is a sign of respect.\n\n- For the best present spend only half the money you think you should, but double the time with them.\n\n- Loan and don't expect it to get it back. Borrow something and return more.\n\n- Ultimately, you can't change others.\n\n- Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities.\n\n## Communication is everything\n\n- Make eye contact.\n\n- Apologize quickly, specifically, sincerely.\n\n- It's not an apology if it comes with an excuse.\n\n- It is not a compliment if it comes with a request.\n\n- Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.\n\n- Criticize in private, praise in public.\n\n- Elevate good behavior rather than punish bad behavior.\n\n- Before speaking ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?\n\n- Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.\n\n- A dumb person, who can communicate well, can do much better than a smart person who can't communicate well but it's much easier to improve communication skills than intelligence.\n\n- \"Yes and\" instead of \"No but\"\n\n## Productivity is a lie\n\n- Productivity can be a distraction.\n\n- Embrace detours, that's where the lucky breaks happen.\n\n- Efficiency is highly overrated; Goofing off is highly underrated.\n\n- Action often precedes motivation. Don't wait for motivation to come.\n\n- Embrace the dolce far niente, the sweetness of doing nothing.\n\n## Never talk about politics and society\n\n- Smart people become stupid when talking about politics.\n\n- The best a government can do is to slow down deterioration.\n\n- Humans should not govern humans.\n\n- Homogenous and collectivist societies promote stability through identity. Heterogeneous and individualistic societies promote progress through friction.\n\n- The chances that you live in a bubble is very high. You start to assume that the majority of all people are reasonable and want the same as you do.\n\n- Humanity isn't as advanced as you think. Our societies are fragile.\n\n- Wars are always about money and power and only the few profit.\n\n- Left and right, conservative and liberal are insufficient terms. Humans can hold complex and often contradictory beliefs, there were believing Nazis that saved jews.\n\n## Creating stuff\n\n- Understand the 80/20 rule.\n\n- Most people don't care about their job like you do.\n\n- Always try to do things which you are unqualified for.\n\n- Don't be the smartest person in the room.\n\n- When you are stuck, explain your problem to others.\n\n- Don't keep fighting the old; build the new.\n\n- Work is endless, your time is not, so restrict your time working.\n\n- Separate creation from improvement.\n\n- Work to become, not to acquire.\n\n- All of us seek ultimately the approval of others.\n\n- Don't worry how or where you begin.\n\n## Spicy thoughts about software engineering\n\n- Humans shouldn't write code.\n\n- The best line of code is the one not written.\n\n- The second best line of code is the one you can delete.\n\n- Invest time in learning the basic tools of the trade, it often correlates to the overall skill as developer.\n\n- SQL is the most important tool at your disposal.\n\n- ORMs are always a mistake.\n\n- Spend more time on the design of parts that are one-way doors. Ideally, try to make more like two-way doors.\n\n- A good architect finds balance between abstraction and the complexity it inherently introduces.\n\n- Sharing code as a library is often the wrong, duplication the right choice. It's better to trade verbosity for flexibility.\n\n- Always start with the most simplistic approach.\n\n- It’s quicker to write ten big balls of mud and see where it gets you than try to polish a single turd.\n\n- Don't fall into the trap that one module must be responsible for one thing only, instead it should solve one problem.\n\n- If you don't know what you are doing or even wrong, at least be consistent.\n\n- Keep things that change more often from things that change less often or from the things which are more difficult to change.\n\n- A loosely coupled system is one where you can delete parts without rewriting others.\n\n- Loose coupling is about being able to change your mind without changing too much code.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fakullpp%2Fwisdom","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fakullpp%2Fwisdom","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fakullpp%2Fwisdom/lists"}