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## Learnings from 9 months at a startup.

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- Your team mates shouldn’t have to read the PRD to get context about code they are reviewing. Name methods, variables, files in a way that gives more clarity to what it’s doing.

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- Focus on reducing request times. This can be done by moving non critical tasks to background jobs.

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- Related to this: Show something is being done to the customer ASAP while you do the main work in the background.