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the best piece of advice that I've ever
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received was to find my unfair Advantage
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now I encourage you to do the exact same
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by mastering these few coding skills
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that will really make you stand out as a
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developer now the first way to do that
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is to be resourceful you may notice that
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on every High performing team they have
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one or two developers who are the go-to
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guys the ones who get stuff done who
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figure it out who are responsible for
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the biggest most challenging features
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and the most critical and damaging bugs
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I know when I worked at Microsoft the
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top senior developers were really
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running the team and that's because they
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were resourceful they knew how to fix
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every single problem not because they've
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done it before but because they knew how
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to find the solution they went to stack
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Overflow they went to Google they read
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documentation they consulted with their
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teammates and now in this age they're
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using chat GPT you need to be a
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developer who goes out of your way to
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figure out problems find Solutions and
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not just cry when you can't figure it
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out immediately you need to use the
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resources available ailable to you and
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use them as effectively as possible now
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one of the easiest ways to be
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resourceful today is to know how to use
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AI tools like chat GPT specifically to
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know what they're good at how to prompt
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properly and when to be cautious of the
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responses it's giving you now
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description now the next skill you need
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to master is Version Control now I'm not
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just talking about basic git creating
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commits adding to the staging area I'm
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talking about having a true deep
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understanding of git and how it works
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and being able to use that understanding
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to solve complex errors that are bound
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to happen in complex development Cycles
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I can't tell you how many times I've
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worked with a developer who understands
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the basics of git they know how to add
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commit and really push to a new Branch
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beyond that though they're completely
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lost they run into merge conflicts they
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have issues rebasing and merging they
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have a completely messed up history and
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it just makes it an absolute nightmare
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if you're the developer that understands
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get deeply knows how to do things like
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cherry-pick commits switch over to
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deploy branches take specific commits
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from one area to another area restore
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code to a previous state all of those
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Advanced features which is really where
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G comes in handy you are going to stand
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out and you'll notice that people will
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be coming to you with all of their git
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issues trust me this is a massive skill
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to learn and developers that know this
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absolutely stand
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out now the next thing you need to
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master is data structures and code
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efficiency often times when you're
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writing code you're not going to be
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implementing a heap or a linked list but
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you're going to use things that you
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would have learned from those types of
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topics to build more efficient data
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structure specifically for retrieval or
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access of information a lot of times
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when you're working in large systems
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you're going to have a ton of data and
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you need to come up with creative and
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clever ways to access and manipulate
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that data that doesn't cost a lot of
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resources memory storage whatever it may
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be I can tell you as someone who's been
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working a lot on backend systems
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recently coming up with creative data
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structures using creative indexing
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methods and having a good knowledge of
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those Baseline data structures really
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does make you stand out and allows you
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to produce code that other people just
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don't know how to make they don't have
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that Insight they don't know how to do
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things efficiently and they don't
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necessarily know the implications of the
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ways in which they're storing data trust
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me this is important learn this skill
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now the next skill you need to master is
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scripting and automation now this can be
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in any language or technology that you
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want but having the ability to work with
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the file system quickly understand how
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you can write a simple script that
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doesn't need to be the cleanest code in
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the world that can automate a quick task
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that can save developers even 10 20
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seconds every time they open the code
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base is a massive skill I remember one
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of the best developers I ever worked
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with was really a master at scripting
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anytime there was a task it was going to
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take more than say 5 10 minutes manually
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he'd just whip up a quick script for it
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and he'd save myself and him a ton of
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time anytime I had a pretty monotonous
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kind of repetitive issue I'd just
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message him he'd whip up a script and it
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really made me realize how powerful that
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skill is and it's been something I've
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been working on more and more so trust
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me understanding how to script quickly
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being comfortable in a language like
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python bash scripting even something
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like nodejs is really really powerful it
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will make you stand out and most of all
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it's going to save you a ton of time
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next asynchronous programming now this
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is something that most developers have a
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rudimentary knowledge of but I'm talking
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about really truly understanding this
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and knowing the techniques and best
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practices to write the most efficient
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code possible often times when you get
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into larger systems you have a ton of
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different calls that are be being made
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sorry asynchronously now you want to
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know how to synchronize those calls you
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can eventually grab all of the data from
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them how to handle different errors how
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to do things like timeouts and how to
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run those calls kind of in parallel or
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truly asynchronously so you're really
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taking advantage of that asynchronous
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code I won't go into this too far but I
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really recommend that you brush up on
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your skills here and understand the
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depths of your language and whatever
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asynchronous kind of framework that
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you're
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using moving on we have CI and CD now
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this is something that's typically
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reserved for more of a devops type role
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but in a smaller team setting or where
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you don't have access to that individual
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knowing how to do continuous integration
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and continuous deployment is an absolute
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game Cher this will absolutely make you
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stand out and is a skill that most
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developers don't learn until they're
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pretty much forced to do it if you can
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have even just basic understanding of
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how to run automated test cases how to
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use GitHub actions how to do a simple
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automatic deployment this is going to
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save yourself and your team a massive
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amount of time and make you a huge asset
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wherever you're
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working now lastly clear concise and
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accurate communication I can't tell you
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how frustrating it is when you have to
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go back and forth with someone 10 20 30
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times simply because of a
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misunderstanding learning how to write
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precisely accurately and even sometimes
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a bit for boly intentionally really
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makes you stand out and will help you a
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ton what I mean by that is when you're
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writing a paragraph when you're sending
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an email when you're doing a voice note
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whatever it is that you're sending
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you're being very very intentional to
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make sure there's no misunderstanding
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and you are 100% completely clear in
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what it is that you're saying this is
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something I've been practicing for a
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long time and that I'm still improving
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at day by day but I try to make sure
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every time I explain something
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especially if I want someone to do a
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task for me that I'm being as clear as
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possible and they can get every single
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requirement every piece of information
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and there's absolutely no ambiguity in
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what it is that I'm saying to them just
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something to consider something I would
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definitely recommend practicing and
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you'll notice how much faster your
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workflow speeds up when you don't need
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to constantly be going back and forth
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hopping on calls clar Ying that doesn't
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need to happen when you are as precise
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and accurate as you can possibly be in
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the first kind of chain of communication
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so with that said guys we'll wrap it up
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here I hope you found this valuable if
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you like this type of content subscribe
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to my channel check out some other
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videos and of course let me know what
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