Most people overestimate what they can do in a day. They also underestimate what they can do in a year.
Habits build consistency. Over time, they produce dramatic, compounding results.
The best time to start practicing great habits is 10 years ago. The second-best time is today.
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Habits are so important as a developer, I wrote a whole book about it: The Habits of Top Developers
It was a long road to create the book:
- In April: I surveyed my audience of over 10,000 software developers for their thoughts on some new book ideas I was exploring. 40% of you wanted a book about "the habits of top developers."
- Mid-May: I had the first draft of the book done with a rough table of contents. Dozens of you signed up to review the book (thank you!), and I chose a group of 10 early readers to provide feedback.
- Late-May: A week later, my early readers had returned their feedback & it was highly critical! There were great parts to the book, but there was still a ton of work to do to make it more digestible & useful.
- June: I wrote new content, restructured entire chapters, edited, added hands-on exercises, and formatted the book.
The result is a book with 106 pages of mindsets, principles, routines, and practical skills that will (gradually) alter the trajectory of your software career.
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You can buy The Habits of Top Developers with this link & get 20% off your order (limited time offer).
Order this week, and you'll get access to an exclusive welcome video & bonus content from me.
In the interest of keeping this promotional post short, I'll just say... click the link to see more details. I don't want to clog up people's inboxes with a long sales message.
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If you live in a country with weaker purchasing power vs the US dollar, I offer a steeply discounted program for purchasing power parity. Just send me an email at bennett@developerpurpose.com & I'll send you the link.
I kindly ask that if you have the means to pay full price, please don't use the purchasing power parity program as a way to get a steep discount. Ultimately, we're using the honor system here, folks. Please take advantage of the program if you need it, but don't abuse it if you don't!
-Bennett