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by JoeyBananas 992 days ago
#1 lesson is "don't be distracted by cool figures." The actual important stats are just numbers, or a list of strings, or an iso timestamp, etc.

I regularly tell customers "Open up this JSON, hit control f and search for the stats that you need." And they're like "Thank you, you just saved me 50000 hour of work."