If you find yourself thinking that life is too short for something, you should try to eliminate it if you can.
PAUL GRAHAM
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Software engineer by 🌞 and sleepyhead by 🌑. Software architecture. Distributed systems. Personal productivity. Cats.
I think that we tend to take many things for granted and one of them is time. Our life is way shorter than we might think, thus we should try to get the most out of it.
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