Random Musings

 

  In my experience, the most sophisticated decision makers tend to be hypothesis-driven thinkers. They may be engineers solving a technical problem, product designers fulfilling a customer need, or entrepreneurs growing a business. They form a hypothesis about how to reach their goal and then work systematically to either validate or falsify it.    Say you’re tuning a learning algorithm that estimates the health of corn stalks based on input from a tractor-mounted camera. (Many companies are developing products like this to help farmers make decisions about planting, weeding, or harvesting.) If your algorithm is doing poorly, how should you go about improving it?    Some engineers tend to apply a one-size-fits-all rule. Someone who has experience improving algorithms by collecting more data may tend to gather more photos of corn stalks. When that doesn’t work, they may end up trying things more or less at random until they stumble on something ...

 

  Upwind  " If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. You don't need to be in a rush to choose your life's work. What you need to do is discover what you like. You have to work on stuff you like if you want to be good at what you do"   "But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one is doing them yet. Most of the work I've done in the last ten years didn't exist when I was in high school. The world changes fast, and the rate at which it changes is itself speeding up. In such a world it's not a good idea to have fixed plans." "I think the solution is to work in the other direction. Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway. In the graduation-speech approach, you decide where you want to be in twenty years, and then ask: what sho...

I take security seriously. I hold others accountable when I think we can do better. I understand that my employment, my personal security, my financial well-being, and my family are all threatened when I don’t take security seriously. I understand that my company’s viability is threatened when I don’t take security seriously. I will never be lazy or dismissive. I will not skim this or skip items. I will take the time to properly secure myself to ensure my company stays secure today and tomorrow.   Follow this guide to and secure your world. Security for smart people.  

  "Your mind is a suggestion engine. Every thought you have is a suggestion, not an order. Sometimes your mind suggests that you are tired, that you should give up, or that you should take an easier path. But if you pause, you can discover new suggestions. For example, that you will feel good once the work is done or that you have the ability to finish things even when you don't feel like it. Your thoughts are not orders. Merely suggestions. You have the power to choose which option to follow."

 

 

  Courtesy:  https://herbertlui.net/the-rise-of-personal-infrastructure/