Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
It’s important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It’s all-encompassing, like life, but it isn’t the real thing. It’s only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you’re still in it.
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
I’m not saying there’s no such thing as genius. But if you’re trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.
If you have to choose between two theories, prefer the one that doesn’t center on you.
The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.
People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.