Sleep and high-intensity exercise are underrated as productivity tools. Anger is best solved by not ruminating about it---the catharsis hypothesis is busted.

Sleep and high-intensity exercise are underrated as productivity tools. Anger is best solved by not ruminating about it---the catharsis hypothesis is busted. Read other people's source code of interest, closely. Increase focus/limit distraction by limiting the work-in-process with Kanban-like systems. Assembly language matters but abstractions can multiply the power of your systems. Conversely, too many layers of abstraction is a design-smell. And soft-skills care not what programming language you speak. Independently of work, learn a new language once a year.