Before all else, you are a human who works alongside other humans.

The most important thing you will develop in your life is not a technical skill. It is to finally encounter sonder, the awareness that the people around you have rich and full lives. To see the person in front of you clearly, to understand what they need, and to care enough to act on that understanding.

There is a person on the other side of every pull request, every Slack message, every bug report.

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