<ul>29 Developer Characteristics</ul>

"Always use the right tools for the Job" (#5)
* This trait particularly resonates with me, as it was a core concept growing up with a carpenter for a dad. He would say this all the time. It's helpful, for me, as it draws a connection between the construction that takes place in the virtual realm of code and its real-world counterpart, which helps me get into a different sort of mind frame than perhaps I would have been otherwise.
"Understand that Code is Cheap" (#6)
* I like this one a lot, because it emphasizes the variability to good code, and that a better approach might be available if a coder is willing to zoom out. I'd like to hold on to this one for times that I'm tempted by the "sunk cost fallacy" (which I am frequently a victim to).
"Always analyze the Error Messages" (#9)
* This one is particularly persuasive, as I can imagine my own character driving me to return immediately to the code to see what I thought went wrong, when in reality the error messages, while odd in syntax, give you the information you need. It was also important to hear that the Error message consists of two parts, and that its the *latter* message, called the Call Stack, that is most important.