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Planting rice is very different from planting grain. When you plant grain, you have a couple of big steps, but little maintenance. You choose the grain, but there isn’t all that much choice really. A handful of choices, but you’ll probably plant wheat like everyone else. You may fertilise the field. Then you plow it. Then you plant the seeds. And then you wait. You may water the field occasionally, or let the rain do it....
In word-of-mouth marketing, aka organic growth, there are 3 types of people that have a big impact: Maven Salesmen Social Connectors Maven are the experts on a certain topic. This is the person who knows everything about a certain topic. eg. A smartphone maven This person is the one that follows the new phones coming out and which features they have. This person reads the spec sheet and understands it. The type of processor they put into this phone is a bit more powerful than the previous version’s, but the screen is a lot bigger so it won’t be able to keep up....
Growth without purpose is not progress. Growth without purpose is cancer.
(src: Article_ How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why) Model_ Wait but Why career framework Model_ The Yearning Octopus Model_ The Yearning Hierarchy Model_ Self-knowledge Quote_ wisdom vs knowledge Quote_ denial prison Quote_ Progress = Pace x Persistence
Leave the campsite cleaner that you found it. The spirit of this rule can be applied in many areas. In programming, you can adapt it to how you treat code. When making changes in code: If you leave a mess behind, the entire codebase will end up one big unmaintainable mess. If you leave it behind as good/bad as it was, your code base will still end up as a mess....
If you write some code now, and look back at it after a couple of weeks/months/years. It will look worse that it does today. Like the inflation of money, code also has inflation. The state of the art is changing. Coding used to be done on room sized computers built out of lamps. Then assembly code. Then C. Then higher order languages. (I know, I’m skipping stuff) New frameworks emerge which can do things in a simpler way....
Goodness: people deserve to be treated well. Regardless of how they treat you or others. Justice: people deserve to be treated like they treat others. Why is this model useful? It helps your awareness of how you treat others and yourself. This allows you to reflect on whether this is how you want to treat people. How do you treat others? Strangers, friends, family… How do you treat yourself? Do you treat yourself differently from others?...
Kindness: treat people well, always This matches with goodness from Good vs Just Reciprocity: treat people as they treat you This matches with justice from Good vs Just Boy scout’s rule + Reciprocity: treat people (a bit) better than they treat you Golden Rule: treat people like you wish to be treated (Golden Rule)2: treat people like they want to be treated. Because you want to be treated like you want to be treated....
That which hinders your task, is your task. (src Tim Ferris)