Don't sell your kindness for time

Hey friends so I was waiting in line for something and I needed to get this

thing done so I can move on to my next thing so I wouldn't be late and

whatever and there was just this big group of people in front of me that

they were just taking a long time and they should have come earlier to do

the thing that they were doing because they were gonna be late for what

they were doing to and and so it was a little bit frustrating to me and I

was part of me wanted to like say something I got or like can I cut in

front of you because you know, I just,I'm mine's really quick or whatever

but I realized that you know, I wanted to assert myself and be rude to

generate like basically to save myself a few minutes it really wasn't a lot

of time and it made me ponder a little bit on how how much time are you

willing to give to a like to be rude and how much time does it take before

you decide that it's better to be rude?

I'm now there of course sometimes where it like you, you know, you're it's

spouses having a baby or something like they're you need to hurry up

whatever but in general I think that it's just better to learn to be

patient like if it's really just a matter of a few minutes and maybe you're

gonna be a little bit late to a lunch or or some meeting or something, you

know, is it really worth being rude or maybe cutting somebody off of

driving unsafely or whatever just to save yourself a few minutes or be less

late, you know, I,I that was just something that I was thinking about and I

realized that typically I share on this three-minute podcast some of my

thoughts on software development and the career thereof and whatever but I

one of the things that I think is really important and actually was the

first episode of three minutes with Kent was how important it is to be kind

so you know is it my father-in-law I like to quote him saying is it more

important to be a hard worker or to be smart and it's more important to be

a hard worker and isn't more important to be a hard worker to be nice it's

more important.

To be nice and I feel like that's a general principle that we should

explore and a little bit in our lives and and try to emphasize being kind

to other people. I have this laptop sticker on my laptop. I I'm very fond

of stickers and I saw this on a youtubers laptop and I just had to find it

and get it and so I did and it's actually it's a circle and it has Fred

Rogers mr Rogers in there and it says the words be kind and I actually got

two of them so that when I get my next laptop I make sure I have another

one.

Of those I love it anyway. I hope that's helpful and interesting have a

wonderfully.