3 qualities you should be looking for in leaders:
- Integrity
- Intelligence
- Energy
Hiring someone with integrity and intelligence but not energy will make your business money but not as much as if they also had energy.
Hiring someone with integrity and energy but not intelligence won't make any money for your business.
Hiring someone with intelligence and energy but not integrity will make your business lose money.
Code readability is more important than code writability, since in the long-term your code will be read a lot more than it will be modified. Ideal of course if the code is both easy to read and modify but if you have to choose lean towards readability.
As a businessman you focus, as an investor you diversify.
Similar to how what you eat composes your body, what you read composes your mind.
Every book can be broken into the following "nutrients":
- Proteins: useful life hacks, tools, methods, rules (you need to use and apply it in your life)
- Carbohydrates: gives you energy, motivates, surprises, inspires (you should think about it often)
- Fats: interesting stories, intriguing, pleasurable, fictional parts (you can leave it in the book)
- Fibre: references, numbers, dates, facts, tables, statistics (it's important but you don't need to remember it)
- Vitamins: anecdotes, jokes, funny stories, beautiful quotes (makes you an interesting companion)
- Water: everything else (you can forget it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk1DrU-AEC0
Some tips and tricks from Elon Musk on design and engineering https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw?t=1001
- Make the requirements less dumb
- Delete parts and processes that are not needed
- Simplify and optimize (optimization should be done as later as possible otherwise you'd optimize parts that shouldn't exist)
- Accelerate
- Automate (important to not do steps 4 and 5 before several iterations of 1, 2 ,3)