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Asking lots of questions and thinking through the trade offs of more than one possible implementation before coding. Writing your implementation plan on paper especially helps find those unknown unknowns before you code. If you have trouble stating the problem and your solution in words, that indicates an unknown to investigate.

I.e. do a little writing to help avoid coding the wrong thing.



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