After being a follower most of my life, here's an insight I've had within the last couple of years: people want to be led. Women too - and that's what NMMNG is about - but it's not just women. Most people, most of the time, want to be led. It's just easier.

Think about that. Meditate on it. Internalize it. And then ... approach your business dealings with that core belief in your mind. They want someone to tell them what to do. They want someone who will take charge and lighten their burden of responsibility. You need to believe in yourself, project confidence and show them the path to take.

Lead by example. My experience of telling other people how to improve their lives - which I used to do a lot - is that it usually just pushes them away from me, and strengthens their resolve not to do what I suggest.

If people are going to change, they need to come to you. Most of them won't, and you need to learn to be okay with that, even as you think they are wasting their lives

Think "if I were getting laid, would I ask out this woman?"

All I need to verify is that the view properly changes it's own state and that it sends the correct message to it's collaborators.

The last time I did a job search, one of the questions I started asking in interviews was “what distinguishes an employee at your company who meets your expectations from someone who is truly outstanding”? If the response was phrased in terms of hours per week, I knew that was not the company for me.

I think this is the composition-over-inheritance approach

Actual functional languages are implemented in ways that make this not as disastrous as it sounds, but if you do this with typical C++ containers you will die.

the sense you get from college recruiters is that you get to write new code. Most great hackers love to do this. But that's not what you get from a software engineering position at the tech giants. You get to maintain old code. The job should really be called software technician.

"Have you seen the movie, The Social Network?"

[They likely say yes]

"Do you think the Winklevoss brothers were right or wrong?"

a number of other things for general mental fitness:

Anything worth doing is worth obsessing over

A better way to program is with interfaces and composition via delegation, something that Java and C++ support but have no syntax for making it easy.

The focus of the talk is not so much on how to avoid doing hard work, but rather on how to find hard work that you actually enjoy doing.

3 beets, several celery stalks, some romaine lettuce, and two carrots.

Dynamically typed languages such as Python and Ruby have experienced a rapid grown in popularity in recent times. However, there is much confusion as to what makes these languages interesting relative to statically typed lan- guages, and little knowledge of their rich history. In this chapter I explore the general topic of dynamically typed languages, how they differ from statically typed languages, their history, and their defining features.

You need AT LEAST 10,000 hands to determine an accurate winrate in limit hold 'em. More likely 20,000-30,000 hands. I had more than one 7,500 hand downswing

You need at least 250 hours, and more likely 500+ hours, to determine your live winrate. And you need a big enough bankroll that you can absorb an extended downswing.