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Building standards takes a coder and an evangelist

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You have to be a coder and an evangelist. And the evangelism part is hard and exhausting. And so that I tend to not do it as much as I should.

Episode 141: Boosting is Loving (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:52:54 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Writing code is only half the job; the other half is meetings and evangelism, which is hard and exhausting, so Dave tends to do too little of it. Going fast means things get lost, so sometimes stop building, take a breather, and explain how things fit together.

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  1. Episode 141: Boosting is Loving (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:45:28 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    I feel like we need to take a breather. And sort of like I think what you said is right, we need to we need to go probably go back. I need to do I should probably do a little bit of writing right now about some of these tags and how they fit together.

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