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RIF Notes #34

“One of the greatest ways to avoid trouble is to keep it simple. When you make it vastly complicated — and only a few high priests in each department can pretend to understand it — what you’re going to find all too often is that those high priests don’t really understand it at all…. The system often goes out of control.” -Charlie Munger Give 40, Take 0 – “Companies protect a lot of things, yet many of them are guilty of one glaring omission. Too often, there’s something they leave wide open and vulnerable: their employees’ time.” Fire And Motion – “What drives me crazy is that ever since my first job I’ve realized that as a developer, I usually average about two or three hours a day of productive coding” Data Driven: What Amazon's Jeff Bezos Taught Me About Running a Company When to Mock – Advice from Uncle Bob Worry is the most useless emotion – “Remind yourself that the present is real — the future isn’t.” Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work

RIF Notes #34

“One of the greatest ways to avoid trouble is to keep it simple. When you make it vastly complicated — and only a few high priests in each department can pretend to understand it — what you’re going to find all too often is that those high priests don’t really understand it at all…. The system often goes out of control.” -Charlie Munger Give 40, Take 0 – “Companies protect a lot of things, yet many of them are guilty of one glaring omission. Too often, there’s something they leave wide open and vulnerable: their employees’ time.” Fire And Motion – “What drives me crazy is that ever since my first job I’ve realized that as a developer, I usually average about two or three hours a day of productive coding” Data Driven: What Amazon's Jeff Bezos Taught Me About Running a Company When to Mock – Advice from Uncle Bob Worry is the most useless emotion – “Remind yourself that the present is real — the future isn’t.” Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work Engineering Managers Should C