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Things Will Take Longer Than You Think They Will - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Consider Hofstadter's Law when making estimates: dontbreakprod.com/posts/things...

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Don't Be Afraid To Be Bad At It - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

"Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" - Jake the Dog dontbreakprod.com/posts/dont-b...

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Done Is Better Than Perfect - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Done is better than perfect: dontbreakprod.com/posts/done-i...

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Code Is A Habitat For Bugs - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Code is a habitat for bugs: dontbreakprod.com/posts/code-i...

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Fail Productively - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Fail productively: dontbreakprod.com/posts/fail-p...

2 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Seniority Is Clarity Not Cleverness - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Clarity over cleverness: dontbreakprod.com/posts/senior...

3 months ago 2 1 0 0
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Habits Beat Motivation - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Habits Beat Motivation dontbreakprod.com/posts/habits...

3 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Match Your Opportunities To Your Ambitions - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Remember, careers have both direction and speed. dontbreakprod.com/posts/match-...

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Build Relationships - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Do not underestimate the power of caring about others in a way that makes them care about you. dontbreakprod.com/posts/build-...

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Show That Your Work Was Useful - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

As an engineer it's not what you do, but what your work does: dontbreakprod.com/posts/show-t...

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Prioritize Ruthlessly - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Reaching for increased effort or pushed timeline is often a crutch to avoid the important work of prioritization. Prioritize Ruthlessly: dontbreakprod.com/posts/priori...

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Happiness Should Be a Career Goal I've written a few recent articles about goals but it's important to call out that happiness is the...

Trying out cross-posting some stuff on @dev.to : dev.to/dorkrawk/hap...

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Find Good Problems - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Find good problems: dontbreakprod.com/posts/find-g...

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Handle Feedback Productively - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Get good at getting feedback: dontbreakprod.com/posts/handle...

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Communicate Early and Often - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Bad news doesn't age well: dontbreakprod.com/posts/commun...

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Happiness Should Be a Career Goal - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Be happy. dontbreakprod.com/posts/happin...

8 months ago 0 1 0 0
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Revisit Your Goals Often - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Revisit your goals: dontbreakprod.com/posts/revisi...

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Figure Out How To Work Towards Your Goals - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Stop and think before you start working on your goals: dontbreakprod.com/posts/figure...

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Know What Your Goals Are and Why - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Know yourself! dontbreakprod.com/posts/know-w...

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Make the Most of Mentorship - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Make the most of being mentored by knowing a little bit about yourself! dontbreakprod.com/posts/make-t...

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Know Who To Ask - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Know who to ask! dontbreakprod.com/posts/know-w...

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Be Visible - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Be visible! dontbreakprod.com/posts/be-vis...

10 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Embrace Boring Technology - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Boring is awesome! dontbreakprod.com/posts/embrac...

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Understand Your Manager - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Make your life a little easier and figure out how to work with your manager: dontbreakprod.com/posts/unders...

10 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Watch Other People Work - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

I'm at an off-site with coworkers, so this older post seems relevant: dontbreakprod.com/posts/watch-...

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Be Productively Pessimistic - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Be pessimistic, but in a good way: dontbreakprod.com/posts/be-pro...

11 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Know The Difference Between Wartime and Peacetime - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Are you at war? dontbreakprod.com/posts/know-t...

11 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Get Good At Reading Code - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Reading is fundamental! dontbreakprod.com/posts/get-go...

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Understand What Your Organization Values - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

This week's new post: dontbreakprod.com/posts/unders...

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Also today marks 50 posts for dontbreakprod.com. Not bad for something I originally built just to test out a blogging engine I was writing.

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