When evaluating your own work, seek independent evaluation and be ready to learn from others. Consciously choose to use criteria other than “but that’s the way I like it” to determine if your implementation has merit.

You don’t have to accept all suggested changes, but I’ve never had an occasion where I end up making zero changes due to critique.

Try to use more-objective criteria such as “performance”, “idiomatic implementation”, and “interoperability with other components”. They tend to stand the test of time vs emotional or trendy directions.

If you have a team, enlist the help of one or two trusted colleagues to whom you report your progress regularly instead of going into the weeds on your own. Having a tether to your team’s zeitgeist helps warn you if you’re off on a potentially contradictory tangent.

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