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Traditional schooling trains people to think incorrectly about failure. You’re taught a subject, you take a test, and if you fail, that’s it. You’re done. But once you’re out of school, there is no book, no test, no grade. And if you fail,
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Almost everything I learned about software development and programming (and still learning) is through reading great authors and practicing.
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“I think part of the reason we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice.
—Anonymous”
― The Art of Letting Go
—Anonymous”
― The Art of Letting Go
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“If you always do what you always what you always did, you will always get what you always got" - Albert Einstein”
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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
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“Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.”
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