Based on the book:

📖 The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery

📚 Buy or read the book here

📑 Table of Contents

1. 🧠 Ownership & Mindset

• Take full responsibility for our careers.
• When facing something unknown, follow up “I don’t know how to do it” with “but I will learn.”
• Embrace “good enough” instead of chasing perfection.
• Prefer fixing a broken feature today over building a perfect one tomorrow.

2. ⚖️ Risk & Planning

• Always have contingency plans for potential risks.
• Stay calm during crises and aim to reduce collateral damage as much as possible.
• Incorporate regular reviews into our knowledge strategy, just like managing an investment portfolio:
  1. Invest consistently in learning
  2. Diversify across disciplines
  3. Balance high and low-risk areas
  4. Learn from mistakes and iterate
  5. Reevaluate regularly

3. 📚 Learning & Problem-Solving

• Don’t let broken windows pile up in code—address small issues before they grow.
• If we want to pitch an idea, build a small, working version and suggest it could be improved with more time/resources.
• If stuck on a problem, talk it through with a peer—externalizing often unblocks us.