7 habits of successful engineers

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#7 habits of successful engineers
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#successful?
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#success
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#success, what is it?
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#depends on what you mean
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#success is a mix of
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#4 big goals
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#Right: be the expert
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#Rich: money first
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#Famous: me, I & myself
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#Comfort: never feel pain
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#can’t have it all
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#rich and famous? no comfort, maybe wrong
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#100% comfort? no money, not popular
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#always right? no comfort, not popular
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#choose a success & think about it
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#because thoughts lead to action
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#many actions lead to habit
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#many habits lead to character
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#and character leads to a destiny
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#so here are my thoughts
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#or, since stories always beat facts
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#here are 7 moments
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#of engineers
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#skilled with external systems
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#but lost with their own system
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#let's go \o/

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#first day at new job
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#big project,
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#short time
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#system principle
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#"minimum viable product"
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#“build vs buy”,
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#“make what differentiates”
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#“buy what accelerates”
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#problem solved \o/
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#back at home,
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#engineers will:
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#try to learn every new thing,
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#update resume with 50 (bogus) lines,
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#fall in the anti-pattern “not invented here”
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#finally end in burnout
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#and total confusion :(
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#habit: pick what you learn,
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#and what you won’t.
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#read everyday
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#and then practice some,
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#and then keep a few.
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#lose the rest.
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#if it’s important,
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#it will come back,
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#bonus: compound learning
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#works like compound interest
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#example:
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#retail+cloud+testing
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#business+stack+role
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#habit #1: learn to learn
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#second step
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#what's going on in production?
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#system principle:
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#“observability”,
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#“feedback loop”,
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#“capacity planning”,
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#“load testing”
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#problem solved \o/
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#back at office,
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#engineers will:
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#hide their past work,
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#protect some bad events,
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#“guesstimate” future progress,
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#wait for the manager to push :(
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#habit:
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#write what worked
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#and what did not,
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#share risks to stakeholders asap
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#keep it about the process,
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#not the people,
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#ask for feedback,
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#exercise:
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#100DaysOfCode
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#example:
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# \#BuildInPublic
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#habit #2: actively share.

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#so, one day
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#traffic grows and so errors
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#we need traffic,
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#so we'll accept errors
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#but turn them into
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#positive data:
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#system principle:
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#“fail forward”,
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#“blameless post-mortem”,
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#“go fast and break things”
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#problem solved \o/
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#back at home,
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#engineers will:
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#do nothing,
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#keep the same old job,
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#stay in the comfort zone,
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#end up obsolete
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#frozen in time.
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#of course you can also
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#become so rare by scarcity,
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#this is a bet
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#not a choice :(

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#habit:
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#embrace failure,
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#dont wait to be ready
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#to launch a career
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#fake it till you make it
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#choose the optimist vision
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#converge toward it
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#recent example:
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#covid opened remote-by-default
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#habit #3: fail-forward

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#with next challenge
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#with more traffic
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#comes some downtime
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#critical dependencies,
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#a.k.a SPOF,
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#if they fail,
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#everything fails.
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#system principle:
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#“spof-less” systems
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#never goes down,
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#"high availability"
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#or failovers
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#are worth it
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#problem solved \o/
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#back at home,
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#engineers will:
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#rely on one salary,
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#rely on one job,
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#rely on one car,
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#rely on one phone,
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#rely on one friend
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#but support mortgage,
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#but support family needs,
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#but support health costs,
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#but support plenty of risks :(
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#habit:
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#grow a solid system with
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#personal backup plans,
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#independence.
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#or better inter-dependence
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#backup one another
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#no one wants to be the local
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#Single Person of Failure.
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#the most hirable are
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#the most boring,
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#the most stable,
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#habit #4: have backups

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#and now, comes maturity,
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#more customers more features,
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#more teams
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#this monolith software
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#cannot process all cases,
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#system principle
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#let’s break it down
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#Conway's Law
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#“specialize”.
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#microservices FTW!
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#domain boundaries,
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#problem solved \o/

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#back at home,
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#engineers will be
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#the monolith: fix car,
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#the monolith: run errands,
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#losing energy
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#in every little issue.
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#hobbies are fine,
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#multitasking is not.
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#mental charge is not :(
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#habit:
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#filter any task
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#by its value,
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#by its level
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#can you automate,
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#can you postpone,
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#can you delegate,
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#can you outsource,
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#just stay focused on your expertise
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#12 kicks \* 1000 times or 1000 kicks * 12 times
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#habit #5: focus

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#harder and harder
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#security challenge
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#system under
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#threats and attacks
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#system principle:
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#“zero trust security model”,
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#authentication,
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#authorization,
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#circuit breaking
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#per-service firewall
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#problem solved \o/
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#back at home,
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#engineers say "yes"
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#to everything
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#yes to meetings,
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#yes to opportunities,
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#yes to events,
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#yes to computer repairs,
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#yes to news breaks,
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#leading to
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#infected calendar
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#depleted energy :(
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#habit:
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#say “no”,
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#mute by default,
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#work at 60% capacity,
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#protect top 2 assets
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#attention & energy.
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#habit #6: protect your system.

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#last challenge:
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#many updates,
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#growing FUD
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#system principle:
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#immutable updates,
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#state is bad
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#diverge from truth
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#"pets vs cattle"
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#problem solved \o/

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#back at home,
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#engineers dream of
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#a little raise here,
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#and a new hire there.
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#maybe a team and
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#project manager soon,
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#until stuck in
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#peter’s principle
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#with a tasteless role
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#in a useless job :(

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#habit:
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#start from scratch,
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#get a fresh start,
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#play in the blue ocean.
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#find the next challenge,
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#close a deal,
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#get a big raise :)
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#most bosses do the same
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#with you engineers, right?
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#habit #7: immutable upgrade

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#wrapping up
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#of course not everyone
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#will agree,
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#many will "get it"
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#very few will practice.
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#my 7 top habits recap:
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###1. building skill path
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###2. showing a track record
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###3. turning failures in success
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###4. backing up life plan
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###5. deflecting vs doing
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###6. securing life resources
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###7. growing by challenge
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#7 out of many others
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#so what's your 8th habit?
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#give your feedback
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#go to osd9.djal.al (or @enlamp)
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##take the survey
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##enjoy the journey :)