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The 21st-century trap: • They sell you on the idea that “living experiences” means spending 3 salaries on a trip to Bali. • But no one tells you that the best experience is not having to ask for time off to live your life. The real luxury is having control over your time. Period.

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A good repo onboarding process is more important than ever. Every AI chat is, in practice, a new engineer joining the codebase. And that engineer has no context, no memory, and knows nothing about your system. If the information isn’t clear, organized, and written down, the AI improvises. And when it improvises, the code gets worse.

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The more free time I have, the more things I have to do. The amount of work is unlimited. More companies to analyze, more apps to build, more things to learn... Sometimes, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by so many things. It’s important to learn how to prioritize and tackle tasks one at a time without losing focus.

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🧙 Consistency is black magic: People who are years ahead of you give up, but as long as you keep going, your relative edge keeps growing. → Every day, a % of people quit (the gym, startups, whatever) → Every year, you become the veteran who scares the newbies

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