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Principles

If I lose them, I'm lost. I know that.
Whatever's in me, I didn't put there.
And I can't take it out.
- James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)^[1]

A list of loosely defined principles:

• People are the most important thing.
• Trust is the most important thing.
• Time is the most important thing.

• Take your hands out of your pockets.
  • Deal with the mess.
  • Be messy.

• Tell me what you know.
• Tell me what you don't know.
• Then tell me what you think.
• Always distinguish which from which.^[2]

• In practice, Feedback Loops >>> Calculus.
  • It's hard to find problems in the world that are integrable.
  • It's easier to control what sign you are (+/-)
    • If you're not going up, you're going down.

• Always leave things better than you found it.^[3]

• Be nice.

• You are either:
  • Taking things too personally.
  • Not taking things personally enough.

• Do the best work of your life.

• Common sense is the sixth sense.

• Just listen.

References

[1] Did not read this book. I loved this line in the movie.

[2] A quote from Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State.

[3] Leaving the world a better place