Working Smarter, Not Harder

Ah yes... the old "thinking skills"

Please fix the color of the text in your website, its so hard to see the white text with that grey background

I love this quote. When I think about working smarter, instead of harder, I always return to the concept of Dependency Graphs. So many tasks that seem enormous at first (for instance, "Learning a new technology and building something with it") are actually made of a lot of smaller interdependent tasks.

I find if I can break big projects into into discrete tasks and determine which tasks depend on which other tasks (build a dependency graph), I feel like I'm on the right track to working intelligently towards my goal.

Maybe this is just another way of saying "Measure twice, cut once". Great quote!