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Hillel on Twitter: "One of my most controversial software opinions is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than the languages you use or the practices you follow. Nothing else comes close: not type systems, not TDD, not formal methods, not ANYTHING. Allow me to explain why."

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One of my most controversial software opinions is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than the languages you use or the practices you follow. Nothing else comes close: not type systems, not TDD, not formal methods, not ANYTHING. Allow me to explain why.

Name anything technical that "improves software", and I guarantee you the empirical results are mixed. They may have evangelists, but the actual, rigorous research, the trials and case studies and ethnographies, will see, at best, a weak signal. Most likely it's inconclusive.

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