9. Programmer
- Programming encompasses a lot of thinking tools, but the most basic one is the algorithm.
- Algorithms are a set of steps that can be defined precisely so that they require no intelligence to perform each one,
- yet the net result is a useful product.
- A useful application of this is to look at the things you do and see which could be automated, simplified or refactored.
- you can think more like a programmer in many other domains of life.
- What things do you repeat often in your work which could be automated?
- What ambiguous process could you convert into a foolproof set of steps?
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