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The need to understand is like a muscle: if you don’t challenge it, it weakens over time. Start early, and you’ll build a strength that won’t easily fade.

Good code is like a good joke. If it needs explaining, it’s not doing its job.

if you don't feel stupid while you push towards your goals you're either: -not aiming high enough -around the wrong people

Your company doesn’t need better goals. You need to fix how people talk to each other.

If you want people to show up for you - show up for them first. If there's one underrated superpower at work, it's giving credit - generously, and often. When your teammate goes out of their way to help, contributes meaningfully, or quietly ships something excellent, take a

If you don't cringe at your past code/work logs/tweets, once in every couple of months, you're not growing. (Change my mind) Of course there are some timeless things that stand the test of time, but barring that..

Absolute cinema

may god give me the wisdom to stop modelling my life as a finite state machine

i wish we had a better term for USA in Bengali because wtf is markeen juktorashtro feels like a spell ngl

Academic, flirting: “I read your article”

“still fixing the same bug, no updates from me”