Jordan Godwin

Full-stack Rails Developer @CompanyCam - Business-minded, Husband, Father of two boys, Avid Offshore Fisherman, and Lover of Dogs. #GoDUKE #boyDad

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@reel__jess @PatrickJMaxwell @TMobileHelp Mine is still out in Wilmington, NC. Have you heard any updates?

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@barsoftruth @Lamborghini Nah son, this the one. #murcielago

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@SteveHenkel94 @Colttoonnnn Oh, please show me a Walmart that you can buy Duke stuff at? UNC merch, 1000% at Walmart… shit-tier brand.

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@SnazzyLabs @mweinbach What would you do instead?

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

NEWS: John Blackwell is withdrawing from the NBA Draft and will officially play for Duke next season, per multiple reports

[Brian H @Dukeblogger]

That’s what’s up

[DBK 🟦😈 @dombknowing]

@Colttoonnnn UNC fanbase is the most “ Rules for thee but not for me “ fanbase put. Also the most hypocritical

[Carmine Paolino @paolino]

The company that generated OpenAI’s SDKs just got acquired by Anthropic.

And it’s winding down the SDK generator.

RubyLLM doesn’t care.
It talks HTTP directly.

Cut the middleman.

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@lipmanb @Shpigford @Railway @Hetzner_Online @digitalocean @coolifyio This is what I use as well. So much you get for free!

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@VTDukefan @Dukeblogger Fuck, you cave that easily on such a confident post?

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@0ld_AF @Recru1t1ng_Guru I know rage bait when I see it.

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@jnunemaker Yes, The W!

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@BenjaminUIX @mrblackstudio @NoeHassiel So you're saying that your original post was click bait?

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@MattAblesBurner I mean I get that you’re biased, but real talk is that all the mock drafts have him after boozer.

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@TheBlindSquirr1 @Canes @realfbllliason https://t.co/XO538g4ObZ

[Sean Gentille @seangentille]

(Photo by Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

[Jordan Godwin @PelagicDev]

@MattAblesBurner @CLTBlueDevil You don’t know shit, that’s why you’re coping so hard, telling yourself that Scheyer had to settle. 😂

[louis vuitton jon @dukebluesamurai]

Dame Sarr working with the guard whisperer