Refactor Your Soul Like Legacy Code: A Stoic Developer’s Guide to Inner Clarity

What if you treated your character like legacy code?

Would you clean up the messy methods you inherited from others? Close the bugs you’ve quietly tolerated? Document your values like APIs?

Every engineer knows that the longer you delay a refactor, t…


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Tony St Pierre

What if you treated your character like legacy code?

Would you clean up the messy methods you inherited from others? Close the bugs you've quietly tolerated? Document your values like APIs?

Every engineer knows that the longer you delay a refactor, the harder it gets.

The same is true for the soul.

This post blends clean code principles with stoic clarity to ask: how do we debug the self?

Start where you are. Clean one function of your life. Then, keep going.

Read Technical Debt of the Soul and learn how clarity scales when you treat yourself as a system that must never go stale.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Tony St Pierre


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