Life Notes

Pessimists are often right. Optimists are often rich.

https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/ Software Engineering Management principles.

"Sometimes you're an investment, sometimes you're insurance, and other times you're a luxury or even an impulse buy." - Apt HN comment about evaluating your reason to exist in an organization as an IC.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility. - Eberhard Bethge

Sin boldly but believe and rejoice in Christ more boldly still. - Martin Luther

The curse of a Godless man can sound more pleasant in God's ears than the Hallelujah of the pious. - Martin Luther

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity. What you do is an indication of the type of person you think you are—either consciously or nonconsciously. — James Clear

SDR — Single Decisive Reason Don’t make decisions based on pros/cons lists. Blended reasoning leads to decisions that are neither compelling nor durable. Force yourself to identify one clear criterion and then take action on it.

To anyone currently working in the big labs it's strikingly obvious that all major progress in autonomous systems will be through redesigning the models in the first place.

https://ipinfo.io/ip

"To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like." - George Orwell

The key is identifying what markets are and are not winner take all.

You can't just get the technology trend correct, you have to identify where the value will accrue.