New Year Thoughts
Definition of Goals
- Subjective vs Objective
- Goals can be gamed by blurring its measure of success:
- ❌Wrong: I made a good product because I think people will like it
- ✔️Correct:
- Physical Fact: Humans landed on the moon
- Economic Fact: People like to pay millions of dollars for a software license per year
First Principal thinking
- Get to the fundamentals than learning the buzz words
- ❌Wrong: Learning definitions of Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, Metaverse…
- ✔️Correct: Understanding FSM “finite state machine”, Turning Completeness, Gödel’s incomplete theorem… (This is why getting a degree in Business is so less valuable than getting a degree in Engineering. If I give you a book that has the same business strategy as Airbnb, you probably won’t build another Airbnb; Whereas, if I give you a snippet of code, whether its 0 or 1, you can justify it in hours)
