So today I celebrated 5 years working in my current organization, which means I have been doing this longer than anything I have ever done before, except
elementary school. As is our tradition, I wanted to share some of the
mind-blowing lessons I've learned
since starting work.
Mind-blowing: adj.: Anything that has fundamentally and irreversibly altered my experience of the world
- “Just because we think they are wrong, doesn’t mean we are right.”
- There is no substitute for being there: get up early, get on the plane and be present
- Patterns keep repeating through medicine, software development, management, parenting
- The quality of technology reflects the quality of decision-making
- Decided is not Done, and Done is what matters
- Perfection is anathema to survival, and probably so to success
- Help will only arrive after you have taken responsibility for solving your own problems
- When others try and convince you of your own ideas, smile, you have succeeded
- You must be your own harshest critic AND yet you must know your own true worth
- Perform first, negotiate second
- “You are too young to think you are bad at things yet.”
- Get a life, your work depends on it.