Groups of words I've come across that have helped me in one way or another (these are not mine)
- Failure is not falling down, failure is not getting back up
- Action will always win. Even in failure
- Dieter Rams: Less but Better
- Question everything generally thought to be obvious
- We need more clearness. Less chaotic.
- Create an object that has impact.
- All code is garbage
- Perfection is the enemy of done
- Do whatever gets results
- There's always a better way to code something, don't let perfection stop you
- Your commit message should tell you the "why", not the "what", or the "how"
- It's more impactful and impressive that you can say you launched website or app rather putting you learned X on a resume
- Ideas only click when people talk to each other - not at each other
- The ends, the project, is greater than the means, the language/tool
- Don't be afraid to learn (the mental barrier is often higher than the actual barrier)
- Being in software is about your willingness to sit down and learn something
- The only constant is change
- Don't try and learn everything (get started first)
- Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." ~Albert Einstein
- "Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behaviour, not because they won or lost." ~Nassim Taleb
- "you should be intentional about whatever it is you want instead of letting things happen to you." -Rinaarts
- Don't ever take advice. The idea is that listening to it and thinking on it is useful, but don’t just take it or apply it out of hand. No one knows your situation and your context better than you.
- Don’t waste your time playing games you don’t care about winning
- "You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do." (David Foster Wallace)
- We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one
- When you don’t know, say I don’t know yet
- People may not remember what you say, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
- You want 100 people to love your product, rather than a 1000 people that like it.
- "Imagine this - you have $86400 and someone stole $10. Would you be upset and throw all of the remaining $86390 away? Or move on and live? Right, move on and live. See, we have 86400 seconds each day. Don’t let someone’s negative 10 seconds ruin the remaining 86390."