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The half-life of a skill
Three things have a half-life: uranium-238, the enthusiasm of a new hire, and your knowledge of CSS. The third one is the only one most of us pretend isn't happening.
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The half-life of a good tool
Every tool you adopt this year will be wrong about something in three years. The discipline isn't picking the right one — it's noticing when a good one has gone bad.
Learning by shipping
The fastest way to know if you understand a thing is to put it in front of a user and watch what they do. Tutorials are an inferior substitute for the embarrassment of releasing too early.
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