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A love letter to my IDE

I am not a poet nor am I prone to making public displays of affection but I can’t help myself. I love you so much.

In the beginning

I’ve always had some kind of tool to help me write code. I’m almost embarrassed to say that I started my life as a programmer with a syntax highlighting text editor and an FTP program. I’d write my code, save it, FTP it to the server, and then run it to see if it “worked”. I know that sounds crazy now but it was the turn of the century and I was young and didn’t know any better.

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Worthless software: risks and prevention

We (software developers) write astounding amounts of worthless software. I find it hard to fathom just how much junk we are producing. As someone who spends a fair bit deal of time thinking and writing about how to be a 10x programmer and effectiveness, I believe we have lots of room for improvement here. In this post, I’m going to examine the problem of worthless software and what you can do about it.

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What you should know about the Effective Executive: part 1

The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker is one of my favorite business books of all time. It should be on every 10x programmer’s reading list for two reasons. First, it offers knowledge workers (including computer programmers) a guide to becoming ridiculously effective. Secondly, many millions of business people have read this very influential book and by reading it, you will gain insight into how many business people set priorities and approach their work.

No matter how good of a programmer you are, I promise you that you can get better by reading this book and applying its lessons.

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