"A youth loves immaturely, and immaturely
too he hates mankind and earth. Still tethered and heavy to him are his mind and the wings of his spirit.
But in a man there is more child than in a youth, and less melancholy; he knows more about death and life.
Free for death and free in death, a sacred nay-sayer when it is no longer time for yes: thus he knows about death and life."
On Free DeathKitabı okuyor
When it comes to dealing with a legacy project, you always need to view it from the business perspective and that is if the project makes money, it's a great project regardless of how it is written. The business doesn't care about the code. All it cares about is the functionality. It's often hard to accept this reality because we
"And you too, for whom life is hectic work and unrest: are you not very weary of life? Are you not very ripe for the sermon of death?
All of you who are in love with hectic work and whatever is fast, new, strange – you find it hard to bear yourselves, your diligence is escape and the will to forget yourself.
If you believed more in life, you would hurl yourself less into the moment. But you do not have enough content in yourselves for waiting – not even for laziness!
Everywhere sounds the voice of those who preach death: and the earth is full of people to whom departure from life must be preached."
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Consistency\Intensity
The choice to lead with an infinite mindset is less like preparing for a football game and more like the decision to get into shape. There is no one thing we can do in order to get into shape. We can't simply go to the gym for nine hours and expect to be in shape. However, if we go to the gym ev- ery single day for twenty minutes, we will absolutely get into shape. Consistency becomes more important than intensity:
The problem is, no one knows exactly when we will see results.
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The group tracked the impact of research papers over time. They saw that papers with new knowledge combinations were more likely to be published in less prestigious journals, and also much more likely to be ignored upon publication. They got off to a slow start in the world, but after three years, the papers with new knowledge combos surpassed the conventional papers, and began accumulating more citations from other scientists. Fifteen years after publication, studies that made multiple new knowledge combinations were way more likely to be in the top 1 percent of most-cited papers.
To recap: work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowl- edge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge.
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Overthinking seems like the "smart" way to launch, but its far less effective. Super-successful people do the opposite - they take action first, get real feedback and learn from that, which is million times more valuable than any book or course. And quicker!
Sayfa 35
"It’s not really negativity or sadness anymore, it’s more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can’t feel anything about anything—even the things you love, even fun things—and you’re horribly bored and lonely, but since you’ve lost your ability to connect with any of the things that would normally make you feel less bored and lonely, you’re stuck in the boring, lonely, meaningless void without anything to distract you from how boring, lonely, and meaningless it is."
the road not taken, 100+ yılın en yanlış anlaşılmış şiiri
You may have assumed, as most people do, that “The Road Not Taken” is a salute to rugged individualism. But this isn’t the case: the poem’s famous
final lines, which assert that taking the road “less traveled by” has made “all
the difference,” are flatly contradicted by the preceding stanzas, in which it
becomes clear that the two roads are, in fact, practically identical (“the
passing there / Had worn them really about the same, // And both that
morning equally lay / In leaves . . .”). The poem is therefore more literally
read as an illustration of the way that we like to deceive ourselves about the
control we exercise over the direction of our lives. It’s a parable about
making stories up after the fact, not bravely venturing down challenging
paths—indeed, it’s almost a parody of its own most popular interpretation.
This misunderstanding has become moderately famous, to the extent that
every ten years or so, a journalist undertakes to explain what everyone has
gotten wrong.
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Pareto İlkesi (Less is more)
❝ Çevremizdeki insanların yüzde 20’si, mutluluğumuzun yüzde 80’inden sorumludur. ❞
