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Learn a bit from GenX, booze up ;) Don't do it irresponsibly thou. Find your tolerance.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/15/booze-gen-z-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKaM_bu9iY

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With no existing social network in place, they'd need to put some thought into working out how not to just end up as a solo drunk.

Personally, I'd recommend organised wine or whisky tastings - or perhaps their college has a cheese & wine society?

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Shameless plug, https://louiscordier.com/the_3_book_of_louis/ I wrote it earlier this year and are tracking its adoption and spreading. It is hitting a plateau though, so now I am nudging it ;)


How tech change in just 40 years. https://xkcd.com/1909/

I also use <username>.github.io and https://archive.org/ (offline at the moment)

See also https://archiveprogram.github.com/


Shameless plug:

https://www.louiscordier.com/the_3_book_of_louis/

;p


"The new business road test" - John Mullins "Will it fly" - Pat Flynn

"Start marketing" - Rob Walling (https://robwalling.com/assets/ebook.pdf) I recommend the article on "Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books" ;)

https://youtu.be/19WpIbBhxJU

(don't know where I got this...)

Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

  Explanation:
  AWFUL IDEA           -1
  WEAK IDEA             1
  SO-SO IDEA            5
  GOOD IDEA            10
  GREAT IDEA           15
  BRILLIANT IDEA       20
  
  NO EXECUTION         $1
  WEAK EXECUTION       $1000
  SO-SO EXECUTION      $10,000
  GOOD EXECUTION       $100,000
  GREAT EXECUTION      $1,000,000
  BRILLIANT EXECUTION  $10,000,000
To make a business, you need to multiply the two.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.

The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.

I’m not interested until I see their execution.


This is from "Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers.

Take what he says with a pinch of salt. He stumbled across an idea with high PMF, so a lot of what he writes is due to survivorship bias and luck.

If people are knocking your door down for your product you can afford to make mistakes. It also doesn't mean your advice is worth much since there's little guarantee you can repeat your success.


> He stumbled across an idea with high PMF

Ideas don't have product-market fit. Products do.

And for your product to fit the market takes an incredible amount of execution. Especially in tech startups!


Idea as multiplier of execution is an idea I encountered at https://sive.rs/multiply


What you are looking for is Ikigai... I am not quickly finding a good article so these will have to do. ;)

0. https://becomingbetter.org/ikigai/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai


Here is my 2c. First try to avoid the languages with too many warts. Why do that to your brain?

0. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

1. https://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/thinkpython2.pdf

2. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/

3. https://htmx.org/ (let the little framework handle JavaScript)

4. https://cssgridgarden.com/

5. https://flexboxfroggy.com/

This should give you nice overview to get started...


Don't do what @BillGates push, sterilized mosquitoes. (sorry Bill) Rather accommodate and breed dragonflies instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx2im0ceCc


i3, vim, Obsidian ;)


sxiv


I failed control-systems in my third year. Was too focused on other more fun subjects. Maybe it is a fun issue?


Good point. Was it mostly just theory? Or did you get a chance to implement anything in code or an actual machine?


IIRC we did a digital control system for an electric motor drive circuit but that was a different subject: electric machines.


Lots of theory, yes.


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