Living With OCD
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Describes concrete OCD-driven habits applied to engineering: organizing supermarket items saves about three hours per year, constant wallet checks that reportedly stop pickpocketing three times, and a warning about the iPhone alarm wheel flipping AM/PM. Advocates strict workspace order for 3am pager lookups, inbox zero and dock zero workflow (mentions Mailbox app and GitHub notification quirks), mandates tests before contributing to projects, recommends lists for prioritization, and insists on Ruby style rules like single‑quoted strings and no a b c variable names.
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