I used to live in one of the cheapest apartments on the Newport Beach Peninsula. 450 square feet of beautiful shitty beach hut. My upstairs neighbor was a former rock star. The house behind me sold for $3.1M...
As I understand it, there are just certain things in my life that I can't stop doing. I've been writing in some fashion since I was 12. Writing seems to be an experience that is growing richer and I appear to be improving. There are other things in my life though which follow the same pattern- despite having every reason in the world to stop... I just can't stop doing.
Though its fading recently, a major pursuit of the front half of my life was trying to become *prematurely* wise. I did the work: I studied great humans, read all of the classics...
There's a joke I say sometimes: I know my advice is good because no one ever takes it. Although it's a joke I realized theres a lot of truth to that statement. When I reflected on why that might be what occurred to me is less so about anything to do with it being my advice and just advice in general. So why are people so bad at giving and receiving advice?
My thoughts on how to do a better code review, basically in template form... hoping to find some enlightenment with a tough part of the job
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