# 20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Thread

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## What Jamie wrote

I read this list and the background on each item and kept wondering if I would get to something that I disagreed with. I never did. I would agree with every single one of these twenty observations. I usually tried to excerpt or emphasize something in articles, but this one I’m just going to leave for you to read the original in its entirety.

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- [WT239: Weekly Thing #239 / Helmets, Bear, Smile](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/239/), Featured

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