📖principles

a working list of the things i try to live by. almost all of them are stolen. none of them are finished.

1. act with urgency. the thing you're putting off until "next week" is never as hard as the guilt of not doing it.
2. do what you say you'll do. small promises, kept, compound faster than grand ones, broken.
3. write it down. if it's not written, it didn't happen. your memory is a liar.
4. ship before you're ready. the version in your head is always better than the one on the screen. ship the one on the screen.
5. be boring about the basics. sleep, water, a walk, the simple email. most problems dissolve when you stop skipping those.
6. be curious out loud. asking a "dumb" question in public is the fastest way to stop being the person who would've asked it.
7. kindness scales. be a little more generous than the situation requires. people remember.
8. train something. a body, an instrument, a craft. the one you train is the one that trains you back.