alex
@alexwastaken
curious librarian
alex
@alexwastaken




If you resist the reality of slow progress, five years from now you'll simply be five years older and still looking for a shortcut.
The most practical skill you can learn is working smarter. But here's what nobody tells you about working smarter: it often looks like you're working slower.
A programmer might spend 20 hours wrestling with a difficult algorithm, then have an insight in the shower that solves it in 10 lines of code. Those 20 hours weren't wasted—they were necessary
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