This page contains quotes, inspiration, and guidelines from various sources that I've found to be helpful or want to be reminded of.

Principles

• Act with honesty and kindness

• Understand what's within your control and own your actions

• Compete against yourself

• Iteration velocity means shipping, learning, and improving as fast as possible

• Prioritization matters because time is precious. What's the difference between working on low priority things and doing nothing at all.

Quotes

• You will mess up when moving fast, but the damage of moving too slow is far greater. - Kevin Van Gundy

• Beware of psychological denial. When reality is too painful to accept, we often distort it

  • "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman

• Instead of focusing on the ultimate outcome, focus on the next move. There is always something you can do today to get a little better, to move a little closer, to put yourself in a better position. It's not pretty. It's not sexy. It's not fast. It doesn't even make for a good story. But it works. You don't build an empire in a day. You build it brick by brick. Day by day.

• The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge. - Aristotle

• Let the dogs bark, Sancho. It's a sign we are moving forward. - Don Quixote