Post #2062621

2026-04-27 20:04 UTC

@byorgey >Have the courage to go slowly, especially when everyone else is telling you that you need to go fast and cut corners.Cultivate your ability to think deeply. Do whatever it takes to carve out distraction-free bubbles for yourself in both space and time. This might mean saying no to technologies or patterns of working that others say are critical or inevitable.< I believe in this. But sometimes it can be very hard to do.

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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-27 20:55

@leonardom @byorgey I'm with Brent on this 100%. “Risk getting fired” sounds frightening, but it shouldn't held out as the ultimate danger. The dangers Brent mentioned are much more serious. If you have a choice of going outside your moral or ethical boundaries, or risking getting fired, which do you choose? Faced with the choice of failing to cultivate your ability to think deeply, or risking getting fired, which is the wise choice? Compromise your craft, or risk getting fired? Abandon people, relationships, or justice, or risk getting fired? We're all faced with these choices from time to time. There are many outcomes worse than being fired. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

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@riley@toot.cat 2026-04-28 11:40

@leonardom "Have the courage to get fired for doing the Right Thing and/nor for not doing the Wrong Thing" is a n important life advice, you insensitive clod. @byorgey

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