notthevcode

“You don’t have to solve problems for others. You can let them be uncomfortable.”
― Shane Parrish

“You can’t improve if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong.”
― Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

“You say it because you mean it and mean it because you say it.
The more nervous it makes you feel, the better, because it means you're being authentic and making yourself vulnerable.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

“I would say that the five most important skills are of course, reading, writing, arithmetic, and then as you’re adding in, persuasion, which is talking. And then finally, I would add computer programming just because it’s an applied form of arithmetic that just gets you so much leverage for free in any domain that you operate in.

If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic mathematics, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.”
― Naval Ravikant