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Leaders, stop being so nice all the time. Instead of seeking to be nice, we should seek to be honest, rigorous, and consistent. Or even better, we can seek to be nice and honest, nice and rigorous, nice and consistent.

팀이 잘 돌아가고 있는 지 확인하기 위한 좋은 질문 두 가지. 1.팀리더에게 Q.누구를 위해 일하고 있는 것 같습니까? A.팀원들 2.팀원들에게 Q.누구를 위해 일하고 있는 것 같습니까? A.우리 팀의 모든 관련 고객들

The problem isn’t that people are too dumb to understand you. It’s that you’re not understanding the social consequences of your words.

In late 2011, a writer friend was sharing her experiences of having months of uninterrupted writing time at her residencies at the Millay Colony, Ragdale, and Yaddo. I was staggered by her impressive rates of acceptance. You probably have one of those friends, too—you know the one I’m talking about, that friend who is a beautiful writer, but who also seems to win everything? I could barely believe that she had the balls to apply to—let alone, get accepted to—several residencies, a prestigious fellowship, and publications in journals I had actually heard of. I asked her what her secret was, and she said something that would change my professional life as a writer: “Collect rejections. Set rejection goals. I know someone who shoots for one hundred rejections in a year, because if you work that hard to get so many rejections, you’re sure to get a few acceptances, too.”

The hardest problem in computer science …is, of course, naming. Not just naming variables or new technologies. Oh no. We can’t even agree on names for basic concepts.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

소프트웨어 공학의 잠언인 KISS(Keep It Simple, Stupid), DRY(Don't Repeat Yourself), YAGNI(You Aren't Gonna Need It)를 관통하는 정신은, 코드는 빚이라는 것이다. 코드는 자산이 아니다. 코드는 적게 짤수록 좋고, 코드를 짜지 않고도 할 수 있으면 더욱 좋다.

Openness breeds trust

If it was worth writing and worth publishing, it was worth checking.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Hypothesis: sentences containing words that rarely occur in the same sentence are disproportionately likely to be interesting.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Last night

Highest Common Denominator