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Early on I definitely cared more about writing 'elegant' code or using fashionable tools than I did about actually solving problems. Maybe not as an explicit belief, but those priorities were clear from my actions.

This post is part of a series, starting at Reflections on a decade of coding . I don't think I'm very fast in an absolute sense, but I'm much much faster than I was 5 years ago. These are the things that I think made the most impact. Care The main thing that helped is actually wanting to be faster. Early on I definitely cared more about writing 'elegant' code or using fashionable tools than I did about actually solving problems. Maybe not as an explicit belief, but those priorities were clear from my actions. I probably also wasn't aware how much faster it was possible to be. I spent my early

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