I’m in love with this sentence:
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
The ghost is not the truth. Projections are built from uncertainty and imagination, growing more volatile the further they run from what can be tested. Reality is the antidote; projections thrive beyond its reach.
A mental model for working with coding agents is that they're blind squirrels running into a maze and bumping into walls. You must place the walls (verifiable constraints) strategically so that they end up in the general region you want them in.
Mark Manson said it right:
“Read books because you will never be able to meet and spend uninterrupted time with the thoughts of so many brilliant and unique people.”
“We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love.”
— The Book Of Disquiet