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You owe it to yourself and your team to work on keeping your capacity high. The more capacity you have, the better work that you do, the less reactive that you are, and, fundamentally, the more output you produce.
Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time
James Stanier
It's fairly common for programmers to expect that hardware will solve all their problems, and then, when that doesn't happen, pass the issue onto the user, explaining why the programmer need't do anything to help the user. A question one might ask is how much performance improvement programmers have given us. There are cases of algorithmic improvements that result in massive speedups but, as we noted above, Discourse, the fastest growing forum software today, seems to have given us an approximately `1000000x` slowdown in performance.
How Web Bloat Impacts Users With Slow Connections
danluu.com
For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been to treat everyone as a stranger you could do business with.
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