The Rambler is a place for posting random or rambling thoughts, sayings, words of wisdom, famous and not so famous quotes, wishes, confessions, secrets, my next tattoo or messenger status. Ramblings you create are private by default and you can choose to make them public if you wish.

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  • “3 R's of Habit Change” 
    
    1. Reminder (the trigger that initiates the behavior)
    2. Routine (the behavior itself; the action you take)
    3. Reward (the benefit you gain from doing the behavior)
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  • If you plant the right seed in the right spot, it will grow without further
    coaxing. I believe this is the best metaphor for creating habits
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  • As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of programs: those simple enough to obviously have no bugs, and those complicated enough to have no obvious bugs. 
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  • “Me: Please let me sleep!
    
    Brain: Nope, we have to stay up together and go over every bad life decision we have made so far.”
    
    — Anonymous
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  • Being human is a condition that requires a little anesthesia
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  • The energizer bunny was arrested on a charge of battery.
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  • Low expectations are the secret to happiness
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  • Quick fix
      # TODO: Authorization commented as quick fix. Review on a future.
    
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  • Great code doesn’t save you, but bad code will kill you #HoskWisdom
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  • “work-life harmony.” I love this term. Work-life balance sounds as if it is a constant struggle. Harmony as if it is a continuous state of flow
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  • the same way i look at you and see the past i wish you could look at me and see the future. Look past the tardiness and there is a lot to learn
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  • dream realm
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  • temporal
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  • A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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  • Rails has been designed with a similar principle to Principle of Least Surprise (To Matz). The Principle of The Bigger Smile (of DHH)
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  • “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” —Aldous Huxley
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  • Full body workout is when you develop a product on your own and have to deal with every aspect of it
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  • Instead of trying to be the noun, do the verb.
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  • The 5 Whys
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  • the super mario effect. focus on the princess not the pits
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  • Fall forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnzAVRZ9Xc
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  • As Elie Wiesel wrote, “The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s indifference.”
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  • “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching” ― Gerard Way
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  • Tengo escalofríos.
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  • I’m committed to doing the best that I can in this new world, and I will face the storm like a badass buffalo.
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  • The subtle communication through whitespace
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  • If you can slay the dragon you can have the princess. in order to get to something good, more favorable or preferable to you you need go through something unpleasant or something you would reluctantly do 
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  • Flip the narrative
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  • if you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them
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  • In this business it takes time to be really good — and by that time, you’re obsolete.
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