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A little bit of wisdom
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# Whatever works for me at this stage



Read often.



Write down regularly.



Re-evaluate at intervals.



## A little bit of everything



- Take the stairs.



- Actual costs are often twice the listed price.



- Buy a tourist guidebook to your home town or region.



- Don't wait in line, it's rarely worth it.



- Be consciously inflexible with minor things like clothing, so you can be more flexible where it's important.



- Insurance companies are not on your side.



- The more you give, the more you get.



- Health is the most important asset you have.



- Restrictions are good, they will give you freedom.



- Be frugal no matter how much you think you have.



- You don't control what happens, you control how you respond.



- Pressure and persuasion results in the strengthening or adoption of a contrary belief.



## About growing



- Just getting older is not an achievement.



- If you are alive, that means you still have lessons to learn.



- If you don't write it down, you will forget it.



- Your growth as a conscious being is the number of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have.



- Don't keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.



- It is easier to change your thinking by changing your behavior than vice versa.



- You often do easy things to avoid the hard things.



- That thing that made you weird, could make you great.



- You are what you do, not what you tell or think you are.



- What you consume and spend your time on influences your thoughts and behavior.



- What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.



- Read more books. Literature at best. Self-help at worst.



- Copying others is a good way to start but not to end.



## About the importance of continuity



- Consistency is more important than quantity.



- Average returns sustained over an above-average period of time yield extraordinary results.



- A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.



- We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day, and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade.



- Focus on directions rather than destinations.



- Good things happen slowly, bad things happen fast.



## How to deal with others



- Treating a person to a meal never fails.



- Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.



- Hate is the poison you drink and hope that someone else might die.



- Accept compliments, don't deflect them.



- You can't reason someone who can't reason.



- Being extremely polite to rude people is the best response.



- Getting cheated occasionally is a small price, because when you trust, they generally treat you best.



- Don't treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.



- You see only a small part of another person, and they see only a small part of you.



- Promptness is a sign of respect.



- For the best present spend only half the money you think you should, but double the time with them.



- Loan and don't expect it to get it back. Borrow something and return more.



- Ultimately, you can't change others.



- Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities.



## Communication is everything



- Make eye contact.



- Apologize quickly, specifically, sincerely.



- It's not an apology if it comes with an excuse.



- It is not a compliment if it comes with a request.



- Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.



- Criticize in private, praise in public.



- Elevate good behavior rather than punish bad behavior.



- Before speaking ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?



- Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.



- 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.



- "Yes and" instead of "No but"



## Productivity is a lie



- Productivity can be a distraction.



- Embrace detours, that's where the lucky breaks happen.



- Efficiency is highly overrated; Goofing off is highly underrated.



- Action often precedes motivation. Don't wait for motivation to come.



- Embrace the dolce far niente, the sweetness of doing nothing.



## Never talk about politics and society



- Smart people become stupid when talking about politics.



- The best a government can do is to slow down deterioration.



- Humans should not govern humans.



- Homogenous and collectivist societies promote stability through identity. Heterogeneous and individualistic societies promote progress through friction.



- 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.



- Humanity isn't as advanced as you think. Our societies are fragile.



- Wars are always about money and power and only the few profit.



- Left and right, conservative and liberal are insufficient terms. Humans can hold complex and often contradictory beliefs, there were believing Nazis that saved jews.



## Creating stuff



- Understand the 80/20 rule.



- Most people don't care about their job like you do.



- Always try to do things which you are unqualified for.



- Don't be the smartest person in the room.



- When you are stuck, explain your problem to others.



- Don't keep fighting the old; build the new.



- Work is endless, your time is not, so restrict your time working.



- Separate creation from improvement.



- Work to become, not to acquire.



- All of us seek ultimately the approval of others.



- Don't worry how or where you begin.



## Spicy thoughts about software engineering



- Humans shouldn't write code.



- The best line of code is the one not written.



- The second best line of code is the one you can delete.



- Invest time in learning the basic tools of the trade, it often correlates to the overall skill as developer.



- SQL is the most important tool at your disposal.



- ORMs are always a mistake.



- Spend more time on the design of parts that are one-way doors. Ideally, try to make more like two-way doors.



- A good architect finds balance between abstraction and the complexity it inherently introduces.



- Sharing code as a library is often the wrong, duplication the right choice. It's better to trade verbosity for flexibility.



- Always start with the most simplistic approach.



- It’s quicker to write ten big balls of mud and see where it gets you than try to polish a single turd.



- Don't fall into the trap that one module must be responsible for one thing only, instead it should solve one problem.



- If you don't know what you are doing or even wrong, at least be consistent.



- Keep things that change more often from things that change less often or from the things which are more difficult to change.



- A loosely coupled system is one where you can delete parts without rewriting others.



- Loose coupling is about being able to change your mind without changing too much code.