Rules For Life (can we make a better list than Jordan?)

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34. There is no "overkill". There is only "Open fire" and "Reload". On that note, don't stop shooting until the threat is definitively no longer a threat, and always double-tap.
 
37. If you didn't back it up, it wasn't important
38. Also, git isn't backup system
39. Untested backup is not a backup
36. "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more, no less."


... Honestly, despite being intended as satire, the 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries as a whole is actually pretty solid life advice.
Ferengi Rules of Aquisition also helps you to understand business.
 
40. If you have any opinions to the right of Mao, you are in enemy territory at all times. Observe opsec and never talk about politics or current events on unrelated forums, at work, amongst casual friends, et cetera. YOU might not be willing to destroy relationships over something like keynesian economic theory, but half the country is.

Ferengi Rules of Aquisition also helps you to understand business.
And war. Realizing that economics can be used to explain and understand a shitload of the world was a serious light bulb moment.
 
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