Things I learned and will never do again
2021 edition.
These are some notes from a personal notebook of mine dated 2021.
I believe it is important to always be critical of oneself and truthful in one’s thinking—you must be a true fool to lie to yourself. Certainly, ideally you have this attitude to all those around you, but with no exception, one should absolutely always be true against oneself. I like keeping very uncensored thoughts in notebooks so I can return and mine past experiences.
Sometimes these notes may represent feelings and affections that were at some point very strong, but all of them come from a personal place of my own. All of the below notes are based in some (usually) negative experience. But that’s just how we learn—it’s never really from our success stories. Growing wiser tends to hurt.
Time-wise, these notes represent a period after significant work and turmoil at Polestar, while I was still a consultant. These were written only a short time after leaving and going to another assignment. I returned to Polestar as an employee about 6 months later, and I still empathize and agree with the majority of these and am already working (or intending to work) on many of them.
Notes are transcribed as written.
