Quotes
MooreQuotes that touched my mind, soul or heart, principles I strive to follow and mental frameworks I like
In no particular order....
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The Hoare principle
"there are two ways to write code: write code so simple there are obviously no bugs in it, or write code so complex that there are no obvious bugs in it."
Geoffrey Moore: Crossing the Chasm- Horizons:
Horizon 1 - cash-cow business, ops is predictable. Thrives on resilience
Horizon 2 - high growth areas, extend market share or drive new market
Horizon 3 - velocity and learning, quick experiments. 3 main questions: solves customer problem? Technically feasibility? Financially feasible engine of growth?
https://www.himgajria.com/web3
web1 - read
web2 - read, write
web3 - read, write, own
Geoffrey Moore: Context and Core
Core: things customers are willing to pay for
Context: everything else. HR, payroll, email.
Spending too much on Context is the "killing ground" of great companies
Wes Kao:
Rigorous thinking is where flimsy ideas go to die.
Gene Kim: Unicorn Project
The First Ideal: Locality and Simplicity
The Second Ideal: Focus, Flow, and Joy
The Third Ideal: Improvement of Daily Work
The Fourth Ideal: Psychological Safety
The Fifth Ideal: Customer Focus
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims Revolutionists
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Tim Ferriss: 4 hour work week
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant.
Tim Ferriss: 4 hour work week
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Parkinson's Law
A task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.
Carl Jung - psychologist
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
James Clear - Atomic habits
... the difference between being in motion and taking action. The two ideas sound similar, but they’re not the same. When you’re in motion, you’re planning and strategizing and learning. Those are all good things, but they don’t produce a result. Action, on the other hand, is the type of behavior that will deliver an outcome.
James Clear - Atomic habits
Peace occurs when you don't turn your observations into problems
Ryan Holiday - Ego is the enemy
The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction.
Ryan Holiday - The obstacle is the way
Respect the craft and make something beautiful
Ryan Holiday - Stillness is the key
Be present. And if you've had trouble with this in the past? That's okay. That's the nice thing about the present. It keeps showsing up to give you a second chance.
Ryan Holiday - Stillness is the key
People who don't read has no advantage over those who cannot read.
The Daodejing
And so those who know the contentment of contentment are always content.
Brené Brown: Atlas of the heart
... taking the edge off is not rewarding, but putting the edge back on is one of the most worthwhile things we can do. These sharp edges feel vulnerable, but they are also the markers that let us know where we end and others begin.
Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart
In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
The more you fuck around, the more you find out.
https://twitter.com/rogerskaer/status/1576025818182332416?lang=en
Confucius
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.
Marcus Aurelius
When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top—credit for the good deed or a favor in return?