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Hey, 22-year old self, you know all that stuff you're worried to death about? All those failures and existential crap that's keeping you awake? It doesn't mat

Hey, 22-year old self, you know all that stuff you're worried to death about? All those failures and existential crap that's keeping you awake? It doesn't matter. I know it really seems like it does but, trust me, it doesn't. No, not that stuff either: It really doesn't matter. Now stop reading about mistakes to avoid and start discovering new ones to make by yourself. Those mistakes will end up perversely leading you to your greatest successes, but you can't make them if you try following someone else's retrospective perfect blueprint for happiness.

wallflower 18y ago
“Hurry up and lose your first 50 games.” - Go proverb presented by Adam Keys Adam then keyed in on the core of his talk: Learning. He said there are only kinds of learning: Learning from others & Learning by doing. You only learn by falling down. Nobody gets everything right the first time. Set yourself up to rapidly trying things until you find what’s right. Just like you don’t play hockey without padding: don’t develop without padding. Unit tests, exception notifier, cheap branching/merging in git, fast deploy with capistrano are all padding that mean you fear less and can try things that might hurt you because you can fix them fast." Adam Key's talk summarized "Oh the Fail I’ve known" http://drewblas.com/2008/06/01/railsconf-2008-sunday-afternoon-summary/ http://drewblas.com/2008/06/01/railsconf-2008-sunday-afterno...
- Alex3917 18y ago
  One of my favorite proverbs, although I've always prefered the phrasing "lose your first 50 games as fast as possible." That, and "win all four corners and the game is lost."
nelud 18y ago
You must very smart to discover new mistakes. And if you think you are then you are not.
- tom_rath 18y ago
  No matter how many mistakes you work at avoiding, you're going to run smack into some you've not even dreamed possible. Roll with them.
  - nelud 18y ago
    My point was that studing other people's mistakes is a really good thing. Some mistakes are too costly... You can't afford them. Because one really bad mistake I'm half-blind and since then I prefer to think damn hard before making decisions.

wallflower 18y ago

“Hurry up and lose your first 50 games.” - Go proverb presented by Adam Keys Adam then keyed in on the core of his talk: Learning. He said there are only kinds of learning: Learning from others & Learning by doing. You only learn by falling down. Nobody gets everything right the first time. Set yourself up to rapidly trying things until you find what’s right. Just like you don’t play hockey without padding: don’t develop without padding. Unit tests, exception notifier, cheap branching/merging in git, fast deploy with capistrano are all padding that mean you fear less and can try things that might hurt you because you can fix them fast." Adam Key's talk summarized "Oh the Fail I’ve known" http://drewblas.com/2008/06/01/railsconf-2008-sunday-afternoon-summary/ http://drewblas.com/2008/06/01/railsconf-2008-sunday-afterno...

Alex3917 18y ago
One of my favorite proverbs, although I've always prefered the phrasing "lose your first 50 games as fast as possible." That, and "win all four corners and the game is lost."

nelud 18y ago

You must very smart to discover new mistakes. And if you think you are then you are not.

tom_rath 18y ago
No matter how many mistakes you work at avoiding, you're going to run smack into some you've not even dreamed possible. Roll with them.
- nelud 18y ago
  My point was that studing other people's mistakes is a really good thing. Some mistakes are too costly... You can't afford them. Because one really bad mistake I'm half-blind and since then I prefer to think damn hard before making decisions.