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Off-topic: > The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population. Is this true? The average person
by gits1225 9y ago
Off-topic:
> The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population.
Is this true?
The average person is irrationally immovable on religion, politics and sports.
On-topic:
My philosophy on productivity:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all ― Peter Drucker
- ssijak 9y agoYeah, the only thing in the article I disagree with.
- fifnir 9y agoInterestingly, it was my favorite line from the article, and I strongly agree
- amdavidson 9y agoIs that true? If we're all just stating our experiences. I find that those who care, care intensely, perhaps immovably, and everyone else just floats along.
- mundo 9y agoI think it's pretty likely that by strong, he meant strong enough to be acted upon, not strong enough to resist persuasion. "All the programming Q&A sites suck, there should be a good one" is a belief many people had, but the Stack Overflow founders believed it strongly enough to put time and work into it; the suggestion from this article, as well as Joel's write-up from a few days ago, was that SO was much better as a result of that (as opposed to being born from "I'd like to make a website that people would pay for, what hasn't been done yet?"). https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow-age/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow...