To start a project that can be finished, start at the halfway point.
Leverage previous work, and remember that code itself does not degrade when copied (but dependencies do).
Put work in a place where it is easily found. Out of sight does not imply out of utility.
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Wordle Pepe. He’s coming for you.
The most optimal path in investing is to consistently avoid the least optimal path. That’s it. There are no winners in a game of Russian Roulette. Except time 🕰 .
Famed money manager and writer Charles Ellis, in a 1975 article in Financial Analysts Journal, observed that investing was like amateur tennis.
The most common way of losing a match at this level is to make too many “unforced errors.” That is, missing easy shots by trying to hit the ball too hard or nailing the corner.
The best way to win a game with your friends is to simply make sure you safely return the ball each time.
In other words, in amateur tennis, you don’t win so much as you avoid losing—hence the title of Ellis’s article, “Winning the Loser’s Game.”
ars longa, vita brevis
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