My complicated writings that require extensive decoding might mean I don’t understand those ideas well enough to communicate them in a simple way yet.
“Writing is the fastest way to understand you didn’t understand.” ~@orangebook_
Unconscious competence = Muscle memory for ideas
“Writing is the fastest way to understand you didn’t understand.” ~@orangebook_
Unconscious competence = Muscle memory for ideas
“I would rather understand the basics really well than have memorized all kinds of complicated concepts that I can’t stitch together… If you can’t rederive them from the basics as you need it, you’re [far from the truth].” ~@naval
"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to… make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains." ~Steve Jobs
"When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off…
you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don't put in the time or energy to get there. When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall…
and nobody will see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid…
the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. My model for business is the Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. Getting fired from Apple…
was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes…
It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. We are inventing the future. Think about surfing on the front edge of a wave. It's really exhilarating. Now think about dog-paddling at the tail end of that wave. It wouldn't be anywhere near as…
much fun. Come down here and make a dent in the universe. It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something…
they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble-…
makers, the round pegs in the square holes ... The ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules ... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things…
They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why…
Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done…
Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been no for too many days…
in a row, I know I need to change something. Things don't have to change the world to be important.”
~Steve Jobs (compilation of awesome quotes)
~Steve Jobs (compilation of awesome quotes)
