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Be Fast, Practice, Hone your craft.  There's a lot to be said here about honing your craft for editing text, picking up a few extra WPM, learning vim shortcuts.

Also just build shit.  The more you build new and different things the more not only your text editing will just roll out, your skills to see patterns in code and architecture will flourish.

> Read their bios, and the answer is always no. They loved to play, sure. They had some base talent, typically. But they also invested an absurd amount of time into that skill set.

This! is actually what turned me on to Post Malone.  I remember hearing his story in how he was just known as the guy with a guitar because he was always playing it between class and everything.

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