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Your “Hardware”

Explore how maintaining your physical and mental health acts as the core 'hardware' for your coding career. Understand the importance of sleep, proper ergonomics, and self-care practices to prevent injury and sustain productivity. This lesson helps you build a strong foundation for long-term success as a software engineer.

Your physical and mental health

The first habit category to get control of are the habits that directly operate your “hardware”: Your physical and mental health. This includes family, faith, hobbies, fitness, and sleep. If these habits aren’t maintained well, they can cause a hard-to-diagnose system failure in yourself.

Sleep is important

Sleep is important, not just because we spend a ...