Quotes

“Many problems are best solved by working in two phases, one in which you let yourself make mistakes, followed by a second in which you aggressively fix them.”

Paul Graham

“Sales is all about momentum. This means you usually don’t want to hit a home run the first meeting in sales. For a lot of emotional purposes, it’s worth saying “we’ll hit a single” then hitting a single, then saying “we’ll hit a double…” By the time you work up to hitting a home run the deal will be yours”

Erik Udstuen

“I have seen far too many people who upon recognizing today’s gap try very hard to determine what decision has been made to close it. But today’s gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.” If you understand one thing about products, you must understand that energy put in early in the process pays off tenfold and energy put in at the end of the process pays off negative tenfold.

Andy Grove

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Isaac Newton at the end of his life

“]f we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.”

Dijkstra

“Mindfulness is training yourself to feel at home in your story. For example, It’s not avoiding the feeling of embarassment; it’s knowing what embarassment feels like and feeling at home in it.”

Daron Larson

“To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.”

Jorge Luise Borges

Written by Brent Baumgartner. He lives and works in Charlottesville at TwinThread, building data-driven products. You should follow him on Twitter