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		m3kw9 on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken “ Before stepping away, leave the code in a state where it is Obviously Broken, but Easy to Fix. ”. So purposely introduce a break that you can fix would work just as well?

0x457 on April 5, 2023 [–]

Yes, but it's easier to say write a unit test that is failing and leave, rather than break something on purpose.

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