Re:Show HN: 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New ...
by vorpalhex on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:19AM
(#23832944)
Thanks for sharing the first chapter!
The graphics are quite rough and too large - the actual amount of text per page on the PDF is very low. This compounds the feeling of the text itself feeling very surface level.
> Instead, we should practice JOMO (the joy of missing out), which is mostly about being happy and content with what you already know.
Here you introduce a new concept and never mention it again. Instead of paving a road to drive on in the next few paragraphs, you immediately introduce a plethora of heavyweight ideas including the practice of saying no and of noise discrimination.
All of these points are good ones, but because they're passed over so quickly with no explanation it's going to be hard for someone who isn't familar with them to unpack them and extract learnings.
The graphics are quite rough and too large - the actual amount of text per page on the PDF is very low. This compounds the feeling of the text itself feeling very surface level.
> Instead, we should practice JOMO (the joy of missing out), which is mostly about being happy and content with what you already know.
Here you introduce a new concept and never mention it again. Instead of paving a road to drive on in the next few paragraphs, you immediately introduce a plethora of heavyweight ideas including the practice of saying no and of noise discrimination.
All of these points are good ones, but because they're passed over so quickly with no explanation it's going to be hard for someone who isn't familar with them to unpack them and extract learnings.