What is code but another form of poetry? - Shit I realised in the last six months
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2 min readJul 28, 2018
- Startups are hard but being a founder is harder. The onus is on you to make shit happen.
- You have to join a tribe, not any tribe, but your own tribe. Our values don’t stay the constant over time. They can shift and change which means that you can outgrow the values of the tribe that you shared your values.
- Meeting people is easy but forming deep connections is super-hard. It gets harder if you have narrow, fine-tuned interests; don’t really care about shallow partying; and have zero patience with most ineffective people.
- “Most people want to be accepted, so they won’t take risks that could make them look crazy.” — Sam Altman
- Coding is actually therapeutic. If coding was like painting, then computers are the canvas. Its truly amazing to see an app crafted in front of your eyes.
- ES6 Javascript and Ruby are both beautiful languages.
- Ideas are cheap. Execution is the other ingredient.
- Personal agency correlates with your own self-belief. A vast majority of people will be resigned to the status quo; there’s no point of changing their mind. Plan for a definite future. You are not a lottery ticket.
- Invest in yourself by studying what people want. Then solve it using engineering/science solutions.
- Technology is the fundamental driver of growth in the industrialized world.
- Incrementalism is the worst. The reason why most people stagnate is because they are playing it safe by making less risky life decisions.
- Entrepreneurship is our best chance to radically change the world for the better. A profit-motive only can only take someone so far. You need a higher purpose. An entrepreneur that can make enough money to satisfy his own needs and then to take a company from $50 million to $50 billion; making profit as a significant by-product, is better positioned to make a bigger dent in the universe.
- I could disappear off the face of this planet if I wanted to. And no one would know.
