Bootstrapping a Python development environment is a pain.

Multiple Python versions, multiple environment management tools and to add to it, native library dependencies.

The experience is the antithesis to “The zen of Python.”

If you want to get someone interested in a tool, tell them what they can do with the tool instead of what the tool does.

Do not mistake a vociferous minority for the preference of the majority.

It is the unquantifiable that have the most impact.

The efficiency of an organization is inversely proportional to the number of back and forths required to get tasks done.

Mind tricks for a mindful existence.

https://abhyrama.com/2019/09/11/zen-and-the-art-of-mind-tricks/

Great communication is not flowery language or good grammar, but communication which leaves no room for ambiguity.

All want to serve but in a big way.

Every day you will find small things that make a difference to someone.

One example is not honking madly at someone learning to drive.

Things happen. Never at the pace, we want.

All the things you worried silly in the past look literally silly today.

A lot of angst stems from an inflated sense of self-worth.

Concentrate on the message, not the choice of words.