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There should be another article on how to find a mentor. Half the time I’m aping things that were done for me ten+ years prior, from a mix of agreement, lack of better ideas, or finally figuring out what they were trying to tell me/didn’t tell me.

If you haven’t seen it, how do you do it?



Spend as much time as you can working around really good programmers. You'll unconsciously pick up their patterns of thinking and coding. It's almost like a telepathic transfer that takes place even if they aren't actively teaching or mentoring you.




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