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Maintainability has many facets, but in essence it’s about making life better for the engineering and operations teams who need to work with the system.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Stop promoting 2-3 hours of sleep☹️. Start glamorizing 7-8 hours of sleep at night. Stop comparing yourself with others🥲. Start your own journey and be unique. Stop pushing people to get married😮💨. Being single is not the end of the world. Stop working when you sick😷. No matter how much we finish our work, it will never end. Stop saying ‘yes’ to everything😣. It’s okay to start saying ‘no’ if you need time for yourself. Stop doubting yourself😅. Start trying, it’s okay to fail and redo again. Stop trying to hard to make people like us😔. Let go those toxic people and move on. Stop letting people to dominate you😕. You have power to control your life, do whatever it takes to own it.
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■ The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us.
■ We tend to adopt habits that are praised and approved of by our culture because we have a strong desire to fit in and belong to the tribe.
■ We tend to imitate the habits of three social groups: the close (family and friends), the many (the tribe), and the powerful (those with status and prestige).
■ One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where (1) your desired behavior is the normal behavior and (2) you already have something in common with the group.
■ The normal behavior of the tribe often overpowers the desired behavior of the individual. Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.
■ If a behavior can get us approval, respect, and praise, we find it attractive.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
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