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What are your first principles (rules you've developed) in your life? (lemmy.world)

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People who make me feel like crap or worse off then when I encountered them consistently are written off and out of my life

Doesn't matter if its family, nobody is entitled to your attention and suffering and it does nobody any real good for you to succumb to the inevitable dysfunction it creates in your life and relationships and also material conditions.

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[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Make it work, then make it work right.

And it’s companion for understanding how things came to be- every complex working system invariably developed from a simple working system

Have strong opinions that are weakly held.

Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”

Now that I think about it, my principles like my life may be all about engineering…

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

MVP is a good tool I was just mentioning. Picked it up unknowingly from coding, still working on generalizing it to my life but its working and rightly for me

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Have strong opinions that are weakly held.

Ooh this is excellent phrasing of a good principle

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Why does one need strong opinions? And what are they actually?

[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

To me, having a strong opinion means I have thought about the problem space enough to understand what I believe are the important aspects and what optimizes them. Remembering to hold them weakly in the light of previously unconsidered or under appreciated arguments prevents me from becoming overly rigid.

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Don't let "perfect" be the enemy of "good".

When I make maps for ttrpgs, I've started using a tool that is, let's be honest, kinda crap. The maps I can make using it can only ever be "good enough." This is good, because it means I don't spent hours trying to make it perfect, and instead just finish prepping other things.

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