Expectations vs Happiness ☀️ - by Luca Rossi - Refactoring
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Some personal reflections before the end of the year.
Hey! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all 🎄 I hope you are having some well-deserved cozy time with your loved ones. When I was younger, I couldn’t grasp the meaning of festivities. It all looked so arbitrary — gathering with all the family once a year, eating a lot, and exchanging gifts. Now I do. As they say, traditions are solutions to problems we have forgotten. In the spirit of this time of the year, today I will cover something personal on which I have been reflecting lately, about expectations and happiness. I apologize if this swims a bit far from the usual engineering…
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