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by es7 1700 days ago
There are no silver bullets if you are already near the top of your game. However, in my experience, most engineers and programmers are far from working optimally.

Here's the silver bullet that seems to work very well.

> Master your current stack.

Time and time again I see programmers who know computer science but really don't know their language. They run to stack overflow for everything from sorting to reading files. They make obvious syntax errors. They pause constantly not to think about problems, but to remember how to implement something simple.

Most programmers can 10x themselves just by learning their language and stack really well.