Software engineer Marissa Mayer, an early employee at Google and CEO of Yahoo, on growth: "I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow — when there's that moment of, 'Wow, I'm really not sure I can do this,' and you push through."

If you're looking for a job in software engineering this is a great place to start. But remember when things get tough: There is always a way. Stay in the game. You can do it.

Don't be held hostage by your expectations. Set an extremely high bar, but be adaptable to reframe failures. Focus on how the world is working with you, not against you. Everything you are given is material for the next move. Everything.

I wasn't going to share this but now I have 'We add authentication to our applications' stuck in my head.

What Leon is live on twitch?!

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."

I had a great time today at #BankiBrunch, a daily coder's meetup at #100Devs. It turns out that Ajax turns 20 years this year, the web development technique by Jesse James Garret, used to send and receive data without interfering with the display. jessejamesgarrett.com/2025/02/18/aja…

"The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. Spend more time thinking about the inputs." -James Clear

The Process: 1. Decide what you want to achieve. 2. Try different ways of achieving it until you find one that works for you. 3. Do more of what works. Do less of what doesn’t. 4. Don’t stop doing it until it stops working. 5. Repeat. It is both this simple and this hard.

Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities? "The way to help someone is not to critique what makes them smaller, but to encourage what makes them larger." -James Clear

An old Latin proverb, "Initium est dimidium facti", reminds us of the timeless importance of simply beginning the task at hand. It translates to: "Once you've started, you're halfway there." Source: Horace, the Roman poet, in his work Epistles

"Your first task is to find what feels effortless to you. Your second task is to put maximum effort into it." -James Clear

“Today might be the best chance you have to take action.” -James Clear

Engineer and inventor Colin Chapman offers a guiding principle for high-performance: "Simplify, then add lightness."