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General Quotes/Phrases


Rules for Life (Genius Rules)

  1. Be Ready to Start Over
  2. When Inspired, Act Immediately
  3. Choose to Be Yourself
  4. Do What Feels Like Play to You, But Looks Like Work to Others
  5. Choose Your Desires Carefully
  6. Fall in Love with Reading
  7. Master the Basics
  8. Be an Owner
  9. Use the New Leverage
  10. Create Empty Space
  11. Overcome the Need for External Validation

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.


General Quotes

  • "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." — Michael Jordan
  • "Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." — Epictetus
  • "The greatest sin is to think that you are weak." — Swami Vivekananda
  • "A question well put is half solved." — Charles Kettering
  • "Would you build a beautiful house and let someone you dislike live in it for free? Then why let them occupy space in your mind rent-free?" — Sadhguru

Personal Reflections

Own

  • "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
  • "When your own feelings override the facts, you will stay in the dark."
  • "A fool will get you to their level and win the argument with experience. Don’t fall for it."

Leadership Lessons

  • "Having access to people smarter than you is a blessing, not a threat."
  • "When you focus on you, you grow. When you focus on shit, shit grows."
  • "Remember, you don't need to be aggressive. You need to be clear and concise."
  • "Jo dikhta hai, wahi bikta hai." (What is visible, sells.)

Tech Principles

  • Quote from "Clean Architecture":

    "Gather together the things that change for the same reasons. Separate those things that change for different reasons."

  • "Don’t let the perfect get in the way of good enough."
  • "The smarter I get, the more I realize that I can’t be sure of much."
  • "As developers, we don't do things because they are easy; we do them because we thought they were going to be easy."

Business

  • "Businesses today are data rich and insights poor."

Starting Over: 3 Things to Remember

  1. People who did it before you aren’t super smarter than you.
  2. You’re not bad at it; you’re just starting out.
  3. There’s nothing you need to know that you can’t find out or figure out.