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Saturday, December 11, 2021

Humility

The strength in Humility is grossly underestimated. When realised Humility allows harnessing the best in others.

Vibe

It is a mistake to undermine specialisation in a team. Everybody has a different vibe that drives best in them. A good leader seeks to exploit vibes that collectively make the harmony in a team.

M in MVP is the only variable. You may vary M to buy time to market in exchange of nice to haves. But the lure of profit can be blinding as you may find it tempting to touch V which will ruin sacrifices made in M.

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

- Socrates, as quoted by Diogenes Laertius.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ― Elie Wiesel

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well, and over us to supervise this is installed a celestial dictatorship. A kind of divine North Korea. - Christopher Hitchens

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever- Dalai Lama

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. – Leszek Kolakowski

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.-Stephen Hawking

There is in every village a torch: The schoolteacher. And an extinguisher: The priest.- Victor Hugo

We find beauty in something done well.- Denis Dutton

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. -Richard Dawkins

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.- Peter Ustinov

“To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
- Seneca

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”
- Richard Feynman

"Best things in life aren't things."
- Derek Sivers

"Physicists spend a large part of their lives in a state of confusion. It's an occupational hazard. To excel in physics is to embrace doubt while walking the winding road to clarity."
- Brian Greene

"The liar knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead instead of telling the truth. The "bullshitter", on the other hand, does not care about the truth and is only seeking to impress."
- Harry Frankfurt

The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."
- Michel Foucault

"The validity of an idea or action is determined not by whether it is widely believed or widely reviled but by whether it obeys the rules of logic. It is not because an argument is denounced by a majority that it is wrong nor, for those drawn to heroic defiance, that it is right."
- Alain De Botton

"A defining property of living systems is that they self-assemble against nature's tendency toward disorder, or entropy"
- Erwin Schrödinger

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Humility

Vibe

Minimum Viable Product