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We do not live in this moment. We, in fact, try desperately to get out of it—by thinking, doing, talking, worrying, remembering, hoping, whatever.
Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday
Spend time with every single other department at your company; spend time with users (as much as possible); spend time reading everything that comes across your desk. Get really really good at asking clarifying questions and combining disparate threads. Then write some code — and what you write matters much less than the outcome of its deployment, because despite what anodyne publicly-posted job descriptions might tell you your job is not to write code — it is to produce value for the organization.
Your Job Is to Produce Value
jmduke.com
Subscribe to news feeds about your competitors
Subscribe to news feeds about both your product and your competitors (it’s always wise to know the ways of one’s enemy). Use services like PubSub, Technorati, Feedster, and others to stay up to date (for keywords, use company names and product names). With RSS, this constantly changing info will be delivered right to you so you’re always up to speed.
Getting Real - The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
37Signals
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