If at first you don't succeed; Call it version 1.0.0

I have to be honest I just picked those behaviours up in my technical live they are actually universal.

Correlation != Causation ... i try to overcome the emotional tendency of the confirmation bias in all of us. Without facts you're just guessing in the end ...

Split bigger problems into smaller ones to conquer them.....

Everyone will always make a mistake, try fixing the problem instead of complaining....

KISS .... try to keep things simple ....

If you can't explain it in laymans terms you probably don't understand the problem at it's full extend. ...

Don't think for one second that your perspective is the only valid one ...

Learn something new as often as you can....

Take a f*cking break once in a while ....

Principles I've used outside tech...

• DRY... are there things you do regularly that you could streamline? Automating bill payments springs to mind.
• YAGNI... Are you spending lots of time on something in your life you don't really need?
• Cruft... are you keeping objects you don't need?
• Redundant backups... do you have things you rely on that have no backup? eg. you might have a gas bbq that works in a blackout (ie. when your electric stove is no use).