Life Path Advice
There's nothing I revile quite as much as a dilettante. I don't like doing something to a mediocre level. It's great to be 70, because you really get to preach with some authority:
Get good at something. That's it. Everything else is bullshit.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.
—Nikita Bier
“The world reveals itself to those who walk” — Werner Herzog
In other words, the hard part isn’t writing, or coding, or speaking.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
Vita Benes
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
-H Thurman
-H Thurman
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“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”
Jim Carrey • A quote by Jim Carrey
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is mor
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The only productive way to answer ‘What should I do now?’ is to first tackle the question of ‘Who should I become?'
Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living