5 Remarkable Things Successful Developers Do At The Weekend

Every Weekend

The Secret Developer
3 min readSep 27, 2022
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Every great developer I know is curious, hard-working and all-round a nice person to work with.

With a couple of exceptions, featured in upcoming The Secret Developer articles

There is more to the success of the top percentile of software developers. They are spending their free time doing things that the average (or worse) developer simply isn’t doing.

To be successful you’ll need to be dedicated and driven, and you’ll also need to do these five things. Here they are:

Rest

The greatest don’t work 110%

Probably because it’s impossible to go over 100%

If you’re that bad at Math, study that before reading this article

They certainly don’t work all weekend on work they aren’t paid for.

So, what are they doing? They’re resting.

After a hectic week, you need to reset and refresh. If you’ve ever noticed that you find problems easier to solve in the shower or while playing games, that’s because you’re giving your subconscious time to work on problems.

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