[FLT8]

Start paying attention to the things that bog you down when working on code, and the things that your users (ought to) expect to be easy but that are inscrutably difficult to achieve with your existing codebase. Find high quality open source projects and study them. Read books (eg. Domain driven design [distilled]). Stay somewhere long enough to feel the impact of your own bad design decisions. Take some time occasionally to pause and reflect on what isn't working and could have been done better in hindsight. Consider whether you could have done anything differently earlier in the process to avoid needing hindsight at all.

[MonkeyClub]

> Read books (eg. Domain driven design [distilled]).

OTOH, Vernon's DDDD book comes with caveats:

https://dev.to/yakovlev_alexey/do-not-read-ddd-distilled-by-...

[hinkley]

Sometimes it helps to look at commit history as well and ask how we got here.