40 Life Lessons from a 40-Year-Old Developer

In step with turning 43 this year, I decided to put together a video with 40 lessons about life that I've learned through the years.

The topics range from relationships to finance, to programming, to career advice, and more.

Let me know down in the comments some key advice you've picked up or want to share!

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
-- RELATIONSHIPS --
00:27 1 Act your age
00:47 2 Say what you mean
01:09 3 Stop wasting time
-- FINANCES --
01:45 4 Have multiple streams of income
02:13 5 Be financially literate
02:29 6 Limit your 401K
-- CAREER --
03:12 7 Turn on your webcam
03:33 8 Interviewers are human, too
03:55 9 Keep your options open
04:33 10 Be direct
05:00 11 Let interests guide you
05:36 12 Budget for education
06:07 13 Make networking a lifestyle
06:26 14 Soft skills are key
06:42 15 Be accountable
07:02 16 Seek domain knowledge
-- PROGRAMMING --
07:39 17 Learn to pseudocode
07:51 18 Merge before pushing
08:08 19 Pad time estimates
08:27 20 Read Grokking Algorithms
09:02 21 Be a problem solver
09:27 22 Know Yourself
10:03 23 Do the hard tasks
10:25 24 Build stuff
10:59 25 Stop coding all the time
11:25 26 Bugs will always exist
11:47 27 Never promise a customer
12:03 28 Make mistakes
12:25 29 Protect your time
-- FITNESS -
13:06 30 Health above all
13:19 31 Chairs kill
13:32 32 Hydrate more
13:49 33 Shape or be shaped
14:18 34 Feel the burn
-- LIFESTYLE --
14:40 35 Travel
15:01 36 One hard thing daily
15:21 37 Easy comes last
15:49 38 Max our your PTO
-- TIME --
16:09 39 Prioritize people
16:26 40 Check yourself

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