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  • Be lazy about writing code, not about planning
  • Automate yourself above all else
  • Only consider the far end of the productivity curve
  • Refactor all the time
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Raphael Jambalos

the first point hits real hard! so true tho!!

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Raúl Marín • Edited

Please, could you elaborate a bit the second and third points? I believe I understand the second point but not the third one and I think I could be missing something helpful. Thank you!

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Automate yourself above all else

By this I mostly mean automate your repetitive tasks; everything you do that can be automated. You know you're on the right track when you use regular expressions in your code editor at least once per day in a weekly average.

Only consider the far end of the productivity curve

As in, choose the tool that may slow you down at first but will help you later on. To give a hyperbolic example: One may achieve more today if they use notepad instead of vim; but if it takes you a month to learn the basics of vim, the next month of increased productivity will negate the lost time of the first month, and beyond that it's all saved time.

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Raúl Marín

Thank you! Very helpful information

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