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“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”
― The Beekeeper's Apprentice
― The Beekeeper's Apprentice
“Career development is a process. It is driven by a combination of five factors: (1) interests, (2) skills and abilities, (3) passions, (4) personality, and (5) opportunities. Each of these five elements is critical and influential in the trajectory of your career.”
― CEO PSYCHOLOGY: WHO RISES, WHO FALLS AND WHY
― CEO PSYCHOLOGY: WHO RISES, WHO FALLS AND WHY
“Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.”
― Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
― Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
“Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.”
― What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
― What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
“The label “jack-of-all-trades but master of none” is normally meant to be derogatory, implying that the labelee lacks the focus to really dive into a subject and master it. But, when your online shopping application is on the fritz and you’re losing orders by the hundreds as each hour passes, it’s the jack-of-all-trades who not only knows how the application’s code works but can also do low-level UNIX debugging of your web server processes, analyze your RDBMS’s configuration for potential performance bottlenecks, and check your network’s router configuration for hard-to-find problems. And, more important, after finding the problem, the jack-of-all-trades can quickly make architecture and design decisions, implement code fixes, and deploy a new fixed system to production. In this scenario, the manufacturing scenario seems quaint at best and critically flawed at worst.”
― The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
― The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
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