The world has told you lies about how small you are.
— Heather Havrilesky
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Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.
When your invisible thoughts are made visible, you are forced to confront them as they are, not as you wish them to be. You can’t simply take a few minutes here and there, get the gist of the problem, and expect to have clear thinking and unique insights.
Good thinking, like good writing, demands patience.
*(and practice —me)*
— Shane Parrish
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Good writing is expensive, but poor writing costs a fortune.
Poor writing transfers the work from the writer to the reader. Good writing, on the other hand, nearly reads itself, allowing the reader to spend more time thinking about the ideas than pulling out meaning. Poor writing might be one of the single biggest invisible costs in organizations.
— Shane Parrish
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“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”
— Margaret Thatcher
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“There is and can be no ultimate solution for us to discover, but instead a permanent need for balancing contradictory claims, for careful trade-offs between conflicting values, toleration of difference, consideration of the specific factors at play when a choice is needed, not reliance on an abstract blueprint claimed to be applicable everywhere, always, to all people.”
On Little Endian & Big Endian
The Secret Life of Programs: Understand Computers — Craft Better Code (Jonathan E. Steinhart)
- Your Highlight on page 204 | location 3707-3709 | Added on Thursday, 12 August 2021 07:11:41
The term endian—based on the royal edicts in Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels regarding which was the proper end on which to crack open a soft-boiled egg—is used to describe the difference.
“I woke with this conclusion from Skin in the Game: 1) Things work thanks to a handful of people; the rest operates by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb