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This is excellent. I also like to use the phrase (to myself as much as anyone else) “keep repeating things until you hear your words used by others”. It’s not u
by matthewsinclair 4y ago
This is excellent. I also like to use the phrase (to myself as much as anyone else) “keep repeating things until you hear your words used by others”. It’s not until people are saying things back to you as if they were their own ideas that they have fully internalised what you want.
- aledalgrande 4y agoAny books to recommend? Even better if audiobooks
- matthewsinclair 4y agoThat particular idiom is just something I’ve worked out myself, rather than coming from a particular book. But if you want a recommendation, then I’d start with this [0]. It’s the book about leading engineers that I always wanted to write. I can’t recommend it highly enough. And for a bit of shameless self-promotion, I also wrote a blog post [1] a while back on good books for engineers to read (from non-fiction to fiction). You might find a few good tips in there. [0]: https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle [1]: https://link.medium.com/1FNBlU2H2qb https://link.medium.com/1FNBlU2H2qb
- aledalgrande 4y agowoa didn't know Stripe had a library, thank you so much!