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“You know who the best managers are?
They're the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.”
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They're the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“The best boss is the one who bosses the least.”
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“No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Contrary to their popular characterization as intellectual conservatives, engineers are really among the avant-garde.”
― To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
― To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
“Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion.....It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.”
― The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
― The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Amn’s 2025 Year in Books
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