Don't take money from an investor you have moral qualms about because of valuable connections they claim to have. Being upstanding matters more in th… - Paul Graham

Everyday words are inherently imprecise. They work well enough in everyday life that you don’t notice. Words seem to work, just as Newtonian physics seems to. But you can always make them break if you push them far enough.

In the non-sucky parts of the real world, you don't have to give really long answers to questions or risk losing points. So treat this as a hack you have to do for school, not a permanent habit.

In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.