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-# The Mediocre Programmer
+# Introduction {-}
 
-## Introduction
+## The Mediocre Programmer?
 
 Let's face it; we don't want to be mediocre programmers. We want to be great programmers; superlative programmers. We want to be the programmers they call whenever they're in a bind and we want to be the programmers that rush into the code base and produce perfect code in a matter of minutes. Code that would sit in the Louvre as a work of art, studied by generations of programmers for its intrinsic beauty and exceptional functionality.
 
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 This book is a personal journey for both of us. It's a memoir of my time as a programmer and my feelings along the way. I've thought many times about giving up and finding a different career path but doing anything other than being a computer programmer scares me even more. Does that mean I'm stuck in a perverse ouroboros of self-pity and self-doubt? Hardly. It means that I need to dig deeper to understand why I chose the path of being a programmer and realize that it took a lot to get here and it's going to take a lot more to get where I want to be. It's a commitment to seeing things as they are now and moving forward from wherever I'm standing.
 
-Let's start the journey with figuring out what lead us here and where we are now.
+Let's start the journey by figuring out where we are and remembering what lead us to this place.