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Most people track their portfolio. Billionaires track their VO₂max. Keith Rabois thinks your health is your highest-return investment

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Most people track their portfolio. Billionaires track their VO₂max. Keith Rabois thinks your health is your highest-return investment

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Most people track their portfolio. Billionaires track their VO₂max. Keith Rabois thinks your health is your highest-return investment

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@yashmp2004 Privacy

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@Surendar__05 Firefox or Brave personally. Although it would make sense to maybe keep Chrome for tests cause your end users might be using that

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Most people track their portfolio. Billionaires track their VO₂max. Keith Rabois thinks your health is your highest-return investment

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@mrtbrgl yep

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@xPraveen07 Has to be firefox, git then VS

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Most people track their portfolio. Billionaires track their VO₂max. Keith Rabois thinks your health is your highest-return investment

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Put together a professional GitHub README template with all the above, pre-filled examples + badge setup included.

https://t.co/7G6xrQFhj5 — $4.99

Or grab all 5 dev doc templates at https://t.co/66ZKSdJ0Q4

#github #opensource #documentation

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When a dev lands on your repo they're running a 20-second triage:

1. What does this do? (5 sec)
2. Can I run it? (10 sec)
3. Should I trust it? (5 sec)

If they can't answer all three — they close the tab.

They don't owe you a careful read.

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4 quick wins if you have a weak README right now:

1. Move your one-liner to line 1 (not after the logo)
2. Add a GIF or screenshot above the fold
3. Make install copy-paste ready (no hidden prereqs)
4. Add 3 badges: build, license, version

That fixes 80% of what's effecting you

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You built something useful.

Pushed it to GitHub.
Wrote a README.
Someone opens an issue:

"How do I install this?"

The answer was in your README.

They didn't read it. Nobody ever does.

That's your fault and here's why

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Built a dev onboarding checklist template covering the first 2 weeks — by day, with owners and expected outcomes.

https://t.co/KmTOQASuEj — $4.99

And for more visit: https://t.co/66ZKSdJ0Q4

#devops #productivity #softwareengineering

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New dev started Monday.

By Wednesday they've asked the same setup question to 4 different people.

By Friday they're productive for exactly 0 hours.

This isn't a hiring problem. It's an onboarding problem.

And it's 100% avoidable.

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Ask yourself this about your current onboarding process:

Could a new hire complete it without asking anyone a single question?

If no — you have a documentation gap, not a people gap.

Fix the docs. The people are fine.

Full breakdown → https://t.co/ZjlAfT74Gq