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Really great book! The things that stood out for me: - Optimize for learning - Invest in time-saving tools - Shorten the debugging loop - Don’t sprint in th
by henrik_w 9y ago
Really great book! The things that stood out for me:
- Optimize for learning
- Invest in time-saving tools
- Shorten the debugging loop
- Don’t sprint in the middle of a marathon
- Recovery over prevention
- Automate mechanics, not decision making
- Make batch processes idempotent
We read it in the book club at work a year ago, and I wrote a longer review of it here: https://henrikwarne.com/2017/01/15/book-review-the-effective-engineer/ https://henrikwarne.com/2017/01/15/book-review-the-effective...
- edmondlau 9y agoAwesome! Thanks for adding your notes to the discussion.