Rules for Life
Constants, not variables
By Harshvardhan in thoughts life
February 18, 2022
- If it takes less than 2 mins to do, do it now.
- Do things, tell people.
- Build a model of everything. The model doesn’t have to be perfect but just better than a coin toss. Absorb the fact that you could be 100% wrong.
- Choose what to believe in. There are good ideas in bad people’s brain; bad ideas in good people brain. As Gandhi said, hate the sin not the sinner.
- Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
- Don’t be the best. Be the only.
- Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
- Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.
- Promptness is a sign of respect.
- When you’re meeting someone, be intentional and have an agenda.
- Never leave an empty water bottle. Fill it up when it’s near-empty.
- Medium is not as important as the content.
- Experiments are usually easier than creating theories. Prove it to yourself.