General¶
General Notes¶
- Work-life balance
- Determine what's important: on your deathbed, what do you want to say that you have done
- Never have regrets: on your deathbed, don't have anything you'd wish that you had done
- Make key goals: personal & professional
- Spend time with friends and family
- Take hare of health
- Complete work
- Cut everything else
- Profile your activities
- Self-logging post hoc (end of the day) is notoriously unreliable
- Is your time spent aligned with your goals
- Organize and build systems
- How much is your time worth
- Professional
- Understand the problem, don't immediately provide the solution
- "If you understand your solution better than the problem you're doing something wrong" ~ Vincent Warmerdam
- Understand the final goal is not the solution itself, but the solving of the problem.
- Many a times people get caught up with the solution or just do their work as is without truly understanding the goal - mainly seen in the IT and AI industry.
- I believe the problem is not with the people, but a problem with the objectives set for the people in organizations - to finish as many tasks/tickets/publications as possible
- Response if you don't know something,
- ❌ "I don't know"
- ✅ "I am not aware; I will check and get back to you ASAP"
- Reuse, don't redo
- Decisions
- Plan decisions for potential scenarios in advance as much as possible
- Spontaneous decisions are prone to biases
- Time Management
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- Never directly trust anything you read; always do the derivations & test everything for yourself
- How to read a paper
- Always be prepared; new opportunities may arise any time
- Always be eager to continuously learn & explore
- Be wary about the Hype Cycle
- Understand the problem, don't immediately provide the solution
Hype Cycle¶
Technology adoption cycle
Venture Capitalists know that 9/10 investments fail, but expect at least 1/10 makes enough money to compensate for the others