- Coding isn't mystical.
- Don't revere developers.
- Getting started is hard, especially if you don't have a community of real, live people to help you out.
- StackOverflow doesn't count. Meetups do.
- The gap between the code you see on GitHub and running code is often massive. If you can't get a relatively simple codebase running quickly, it's probably because the developer assumes a lot about your system, not because you've done something wrong.
- If code looks messy and scatterbrained, it probably is.
- Read Ruby books. Avdi Grimm and Sandi Metz have a lot of important things you should read, whether you write Ruby or not.
- So-called '10x programmers' leave 10x the technical debt of other programmers. The 10x myth has a cost.
- Don't revere developers.
- There's no such thing as a 'real programmer' versus a 'not-real programmer'. People who code more at the system-level are not better than people who code at the browser level. Don't let anyone tell you differently.
- Startup culture isn't all desirable.
- When women and people of color express that they are marginalized in tech culture, listen to them.
- Act on their suggestions.
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