What's the best advice you've ever received?
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When in *immediate* crisis, shorten your timeline. Treat each day as a discrete project to secure your way out of the immediate problem. Expand to thinking in terms of weeks, months, etc. only when you've got a bit of solid ground underneath you
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An old seasoned business owner once told me, "If it doesn't have to do with bowel movements or erections, it's not worth worrying about."
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You should talk to [person] at [school]'s admissions committee, she has earmarked scholarships for [certain characteristics and standards]. I could blab about how it taught me to look at leverage points or whatnot, but really it just saved me a TON of money that one time.
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In second place, measured by the positive impact it had on my life, is this: slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/sho
I'm not trying to troll your prompt, I'm dead serious about both.
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I have a whole bunch from my ex-boss – but I think the best one is: ask yourself what Visa 10 years from now will wish you were doing right now
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be equally explainable by incompetence or ignorance."
That, and some variation of "gatekeeping is for suckers; let people like things."
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Nobody cares if you’re a good person. People will only care about you if you can do things for them.
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