A small research about frugality

July 9, 2016

Frugality  - Try to save time, save money, and save the resources.
How to build the habit to think in frugality?
How to measure the progress of good thinking in frugality?
What to do to prevent impulse shopping or other things?
How to save time, focus on important things first?
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A list can be long, first of all, memorize the verse:
Proverbs 28:6 Better to be a poor person who has integrity than to be rich and double-dealing.

Lessons she learned: 
1. Spent a lot of time to debug/maintain the code in last 6 years, if she learns to focus on writing bug-free code in the first writing, that is a lot of savings on time.  It is not frugal to write code, without a few of rewriting followed, some refinements, following some code standards, following certain design principles closely; 

That time goes to study of algorithm, problem solving, code standards, etc. 

2. Spend a lot of time reading/ studying, without practice (write code/ write blogs/ help others at work), or review later on, the knowledge is easy to come/ easy to go. Not focusing on the most important thing - data structure, algorithm, math, problem solving, try to overcome the limitation of cognitive ability etc. 

3. Should work on time management / planning / decision making. Good planning saves a lot of time later.