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I loved the article too.

I mean, the most important wisdom is never "mountaintop guru" insight, it's always simple things that just need to be reinforced and actually observed in practice.

It's one thing to say "keep it simple" and a totally other thing to actually be keeping it simple for four decades :)



> reinforced

Agreed. I'm ~15 years in, and so even though I didn't come across any new ideas here, it's very helpful to hear what a 40 year vet thinks are the most important signals and try and harden those paths in my mind.




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