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As someone coding for my own business, I often find myself deep down a rabbit hole and have to get out and force myself to just use that ugly patch.

It's a balancing act, because it hurts me to just leave something without completing it "the right way" but I have found that if I try to do everything "the right way", I would get so little done.

I try to keep this in mind when reviewing or working on other's code. Some things will anger me at first glance but the problem is, they were probably just prioritizing different things at the time than I would have prioritized right now.



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