If you plan for a hotfix, you blew it.

For any project, its extremely vital to set the right expectations. What problem is something going to solve, what its not going to solve and conveying that information to the decision makers.

Lets say you find the toilet seat in a shared restroom to be dirty. Do you clean it yourself, do you inform the concerned authorities or do you let it go and pass the baton onto someone else? You did not cause it but are you responsible for it once you find out? Whatever you decide to do, it serves as a good rough indicator of your mindset for any other shared resource like shared code, culture, values or anything else.

You don’t need permission from a job title to change stuff, to make an impact. Job title is a placebo, its not doing anything apart from creating an illusion that its going to help you make a difference. Don’t let that job title or job description stop you. To quote Ayn Rand “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

Any system is built upon a set of assumptions. Assumptions help us make the right trade-offs. If you change the underlying assumptions of a system, make sure that the system can handle the updated set of assumptions.

Ethnicity, color, race, gender, voice or anything on similar lines is an immutable characteristic of a person. It is extremely evil to criticize or discriminate anyone over it.

Sometimes the most passionate, caring and hard-working people are the one’s who are perceived as assholes. If those are the only reasons to classify them as assholes then in order to do the best work of your life, you should work with assholes.

No matter how accomplished a craftsman is, there is no bigger motivation to keep going than honest appreciation from people who care about the craft. That article you liked by someone on the Internet could be their last before they were planning to give up on writing. So if you really, honestly and genuinely like something that someone has taken the effort to share with the world, all it takes is one tweet, one like, one email or one comment to keep the fire going. So do that one thing today.

Which one amongst them would make it easier to catch up with the other? Or should they be equally balanced?

I want Chow mein noodles sounds so much better than I want item number 17. Food gets its personality from its name and not from a number.

The Martian is one of the best stories I have read in recent times. And there’s much to love about the protagonist from the book - Mark Watney. He is self-effacing guy with a good sense of humor stuck on Mars. Although Mark Watney is a fictional character from the book, there are lots of interesting things to learn from the character

Before executing your final plan, test out your plan in smaller increments Understand the fundamental principles behind any technology deeply so that you can easily connect the dots Don’t be afraid to hack stuff and not follow procedures when in a crisis or an unprecedented situation Always be alert and notice small subtle changes in familiar things Setup milestones when on a longer mission Be positive and have a good sense of humor Log your results and hypothesis

Write a program in C over Objective-C because the situation demands it. Shoot film over digital because you think it would get better results. Don’t try to be a purist just for the heck of it, do it because it solves a problem in a way that makes more sense. Don’t make it more difficult than it needs to be. The route of simplicity is by default the most efficient.

Maps my runs Silent Alarm Integrated Audio player and wireless headphones Automatic syncing Informative/Actionable activity snapshot Looks polished