• Always consider the context. Everything is a part of a system, and you can get into trouble by only considering things in isolation.
• Use rules for novices, intuition for experts. This is one of the core principles of the Dreyfus skill model.

• Capture all of your ideas, such as in a notebook, to get more of them.
• Strive for good design, it really works better.
• The more senses you engage in a task, the more involved and focused your brain will be. Fiddling, music...

• Hedge your bets with diversity.
• Allow for different bugs in different people.
• Act like you’ve evolved, breathe, don’t hiss.
• Trust intuition, but verify.
• Create SMART objectives to reach your goals.
• Plan your investment in...

• Give yourself permission to fail; it’s the path to success.
• Groove your mind for success through envisioning it.
• Learn to pay attention.
• Make thinking time.
• Use a personal wiki to organize your knowledge and learn...

Questions to ask yourself to challenge your intuition:

• How do you know?
• Says who?
• How specifically?
• How does what I’m doing cause you to…?
• Compared to what or whom?
• Does it always happen?
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The planning is more important than the plan.

Just because your plan is likely to change doesn’t mean planning isn’t valuable.

• Survey: Scan the table of contents and chapter summaries for an overview.
• Question: Note any questions you have.
• Read: Read in its entirety.
• Recite: Summarize, take notes, and put in your own words.

If you can’t think of three ways a plan can go wrong or three different solution to a problem, then you haven’t thought about it hard enough.

• You can’t just rely on a good teacher. A teacher doesn’t just teach, a student must also do the learning, and you must know how to learn effectively.
• Uncorrected problems that you’re aware of only get worse. Fix them as soon as possible.