Move fast and break things
Get through the OODA loop as many times as possible.
Alligator energy (move slow and preserve things)
Make it work, make it right, make it fast (in that order)
Done is better than perfect
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.
“It’s ugly, but it works!” — R. Fisher
If the way is long, the way is wrong
Project Management Triangle
Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick two but not all three.
Organizations are fractals
Focus on what moves the needle
Code is run more than it is read
ONE SHOT. ONE LIFE
The computer doesn’t care
“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.” — Leon Bambrick
In other words, pick something for a name and roll with the punches.
Elon’s 5 Step Design Process
- Make the requirements less dumb
- Try and delete part of the process
- Simplify or optimize
- Accelerate Cycle Time
- Automate
Never Settle
“But it’s also about looking at things anew and what they could be instead of what they are” — Rodney Mullen
Success requires continuing even when it’s painful
Find what you love and let it kill you
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. — Charles Bukowski
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are at
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
Just Culture
Comparison is the thief of joy
Let’s make it happen
Things don’t happen on their own. We have to do things, expend energy and move matter to make it happen.