craft

  • ▪Ship, then ship again. There is a pattern.
  • ▪Write code the way you would write a sentence. Short. Clear. No filler.
  • ▪The best engineers talk like writers.
  • ▪Code alone is not enough. Build taste and aesthetics alongside it.
  • ▪Passion carries you through the hard parts. Get rewarded anyway.

writing

  • ▪Write to remember, not to impress.
  • ▪The best articles are short, structured, and leave room to think further.
  • ▪The answer is on the shelf somewhere.
  • ▪If an old article bothers you, rewrite it. That happens a lot.

origin

  • ▪Started at freeCodeCamp.
  • ▪"If you're not a little bit scared all the time, just a little bit, then you're not gonna improve." — The Myth of the Genius Programmer
  • ▪"To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you." — Rick
  • ▪"Understand the trunk and big branches before the leaves, or there is nothing for them to hang on to." — Elon Musk

life

  • ▪Kindness is felt after, not during.
  • ▪Earn the room to dream first.
  • ▪Everything passes.
  • ▪The void is a constant.
  • ▪The Minimalists.