A few maxims that serve me well, which might or might not serve you well. include:
Reward the behavior I want, ignore the behavior I don’t want.
Get enough sleep. It’s amazing how much smarter and more pleasant other people become when I’m not tired.
Attend to likely motives. In particular, if someone says something, consider what they intend to accomplish by doing so. If I’m not sure, then I don’t actually yet understand what they said, regardless of the words they used.
Attend to the next thing. That is, large projects and future goals and so forth just tend to distract or overwhelm me; to make progress, I need to know what the next action/decision is, and the one after that, and the one after that.
As K&P put it: “When you make a decision, do something. Don’t just go somewhere or make another decision.”
Whoops! I even looked it up because I couldn’t remember the other author’s name, and then got it wrong anyway. Humph. Thanks for the correction; fixed.
A few maxims that serve me well, which might or might not serve you well. include:
Reward the behavior I want, ignore the behavior I don’t want.
Get enough sleep. It’s amazing how much smarter and more pleasant other people become when I’m not tired.
Attend to likely motives. In particular, if someone says something, consider what they intend to accomplish by doing so. If I’m not sure, then I don’t actually yet understand what they said, regardless of the words they used.
Attend to the next thing. That is, large projects and future goals and so forth just tend to distract or overwhelm me; to make progress, I need to know what the next action/decision is, and the one after that, and the one after that.
As K&P put it: “When you make a decision, do something. Don’t just go somewhere or make another decision.”
(That book is by Kernighan and Plauger, not K&R.)
Whoops! I even looked it up because I couldn’t remember the other author’s name, and then got it wrong anyway. Humph. Thanks for the correction; fixed.