When you make something for a living, whether it's wood carvings, SQL reports, digital art, software, or anything else, you get better every day you do it, even if you don't know it. Have you ever looked at someone else's work and rolled your eyes at a simple mistake they made, or how they did something useless or, worse, counterproductive in part of their work?
Well, that's you today. You can pick mistakes that less experienced people can make. Well you used to be less experienced, so why don't you look over some of your own code from six months ago, a year ago, or longer? You can use all those months and years of experience to make that older code better, more efficient, and smoother. Just try not to pick on yourself too much for making those terrible mistakes.
This is good advice, but sometimes hard to do in business. Finding time to review and streamline something you did last year is helpful, but difficult when weighed against the impetus of getting something new done. Ideally, your schedule wouldn't be so tight as to preclude this kind of thing. But life is rarely ideal ;)
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