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Legendary jazz guitarist Pat Metheny takes this idea one step further and offers this advice: “Always be the worst guy in every band you’re in. If you’re the best guy there, you need to be in a different band. And I think that works for almost everything that’s out there as well.”[132]
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt
An excellent technique here is to convert the inequality condition to a boolean value: Either the condition matches the row (`yes`) or not (`no`). Therefore, a simple equality condition with a corresponding index must only scan the matching index entries (Fig. C). This optimization is further explained in chapter *5.3 Transforming Range Conditions*.
Indexing Beyond the Basics
Tobias Petry
Practice being uncomfortable, even in small ways.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
Skip eating for a day, or sugar for a month.
Go light-weight camping for a week.
Befriend discomfort so that you’ll never fear it.
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