HACKER Q&A
📣 ctxc

What are some quotes that stuck with you and change the way you think?


"Even if you don’t have any aspirations to build a public following, there is tremendous career value in becoming the go-to person within your technical niche. The person who everybody on your team comes to with their toughest question about that language or framework. The person who knows where all the bodies are buried in ActiveDirectory or Typescript or DynamoDB. Those folks have great careers and job security because authoritative knowledge like that is rare. To some extent, it’s rare because wisdom only comes with experience. But I know plenty of engineers who’ve sat in the same chair for ten years getting the same year of experience ten times. Heck, I’ve been there myself; I spent a couple of years as an “accidental DBA” who never really learned that much about SQL Server beyond what the daily firefighting required."

https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-career-changing-art-of-reading-the-docs

This is something that stuck with me, prompting me to look at things I come across out of necessity at least a tad deeper than necessary.

  👤 sacrosanct Accepted Answer ✓
'Play to your strengths'. I only build on strength whereas previously I was fixing my weaknesses. Find what you have a natural talent for, and build on that.
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"Within acceptable tolerances" - Nothing has to be perfect, being almost perfect is perfect.

"Don't be yourself, be your best self" - self reflection, focus on the positive. This phrase saved me from becoming an incel.

"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly" - Just do the thing

"Jack of all trades, master of none. Far better than a master of one" - The full saying completely changes the meaning.

👤 ZeroGravitas
“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.” -- Robert M Pirsig.
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Thomas Sowell If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

and

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

👤 bobthrowaway
"Everything is a lie"