Standing on the shoulders of giants
Learn from the best then apply what you’ve learned.
I’ve been enjoying 37Signals’ book Getting Real and wanted to share this thoughtful line from Manage Debt:
Hack together some bad code that’s functional but still a bit hairy and you’re building up debt. Throw together a design that’s good enough but not really good and you’ve done it again.
This quote resonated deeply with me. Know that this debt will get passed on to your predecessor if you leave the project and at some point, the debt has to be resolved.
On Doing What You Love
Steve Olson finds the best reading on the web. I followed a link in one of his posts today about responsibility, where he asks “Do you need to take responsibility to do the things you love?”
A frank and succinct observation on the journey to discovering what you love doing, Paul Graham explores where our attitudes and beliefs derive. Warning: This isn’t your typical conventional list of “Top 10 Ways to Find What You Love.” It takes some reading, lots of thought, and time to digest it all.
With that in mind, give yourself a lunch break or use an extended break to read it.
How to Do What You Love, by Paul Graham [via Steve Olson]
