- Taste. Read The Elements of Style and Paul Graham's http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html - Watch All the President's Men

- Taste. Read The Elements of Style and Paul Graham's http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html - Watch All the President's Men and emulate the reporters Woodward and Bernstein. They hustle. That's what I miss among people I work with. If something is not explicitly assigned, cut-and-dried, and easy to follow, they give up. You may not be fired, but good luck making a real dent in the universe, as Steve Jobs used to say (another person to emulate! well, in some ways).