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I am a researcher, and as you might expect, I write fairly terrible code. In an attempt to keep myself sharp, I regularly code on leetcode. My Leetcode Profile All self-help content that has ever been published is either trying to run towards or away from one universal truth: you need to do things to get better at them. More to the point, you need to work in a focused way to try to get better at things. There are two ways you can deal with this immutable truth. First, you can get really good at pretending. This is what a lot of self-help is about, and for the most part represents the 10-minute-abs phenomenon. Second, you can cram a ton of effort into a short time. This is what "fast improvers" do. A lot of people get the second part of this wrong. There's a great deal of people who have a misconception that improving at things is a function of how much time you spend at the thing. This is, at the surface level, true. How could it not be true? You start not knowing and then over time yo

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