> If you can train yourself to read your own code with fresh eyes almost as soon as you write it, you’d be unlocking a powerful shortcut, a cheat code to life.
This is really a key takeaway here: Always keep your audience in mind. When programming, you have two audiences: the machine executing the code, and fellow programmers maintaining the code. Both are important, but the latter is often neglected and is what the article is about. Optimize for your human audience. What will make it easier for the next person to understand this? Do that.
Like public speaking or writing an article. A great talk or a article happen when the speaker/author knew exactly how the audience would perceive them.