What I am actually optimising for.
✦ The short version
Build things that matter, get uncomfortable on purpose, and stay curious enough that the ceiling keeps moving.
✦ The principles I try to live by
- Own the whole thing, not the ticket. End to end or not at all.
- Choose the harder, stranger road. Comfort is a slow leak.
- Think in systems, keep the soul. Rigour and warmth are not opposites.
- Make hard things teachable. If I can't explain it, I don't really know it.
- Ship, then reflect. Motion first, polish second.
- Be more extroverted than is comfortable. The good stuff is on the other side of the awkward hello.
The desk, and the book of the moment: Head First Design Patterns.