Field note
Vol. 1 · Est. 2024 Nº 01
Asymmetry
A working notebook · tilt the scale
Not a résumé. Notes on risk, work, money and craft, plus the quotes worth keeping and the wisdom worth stealing.
Kept by Anil Somani, developer & co-founder of ThinkFull Technologies.
Marginalia
All 31 quotes →Returns are made on the way up. Reputations are made on the way down.
[{"text":"Returns are made on the way up. Reputations are made on the way down."},{"text":"Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"},{"text":"All models are wrong, but some are useful.","author":"George E.P. Box"},{"text":"It's not about who did it first. It's about who did it right."},{"text":"The best way to predict the future is to create it."},{"text":"The young man knows the rules, the old man knows the exceptions.","author":"Charlie Munger"}]
Things I keep relearning
Nº 01–06- 01
Ship the boring version first. The clever one can wait for a problem that's actually yours.
- 02
A system you can't see is a system you don't control.
- 03
Most “scaling problems” are really “we never measured it” problems.
- 04
Automation only counts once it survives the third edge case without you watching.
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“Done” is whether the problem is gone, not whether the tests pass.
- 06
The business reviewed my code harder than any engineer ever did.
From the collection
All 31 quotes →Lines on money, work, risk and how the world actually works, gathered over the years. The longer pieces live in Wisdom.
Financial literacy is not a side effect of wealth. Wealth is a side effect of financial literacy.
Mastery is the best goal: the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it.
He who works all day has no time to make money.
From the notebook
All writing →The business
ThinkFull Technologies
A small software studio building backends, scrapers, and data pipelines. Founded 2023.
Whose notebook is this?
The colophonAnil Somani. A backend-leaning developer who builds APIs, scrapers and data pipelines, and runs a small software studio instead of taking a job. This site is the notebook; the work and the long version live elsewhere.