Writing
Six pieces, mostly about building things at a size one person can hold. Newest first.
- The smallest thing that could work July 22 A rule I stole from a colleague and have not managed to improve on since.
- Notes on reading code you didn't write June 4 Four habits that turned an unfamiliar codebase from a wall into a map.
- I stopped measuring my mornings April 18 Three years of tracked wake times, and what was actually in the data.
- What a good design review sounds like February 27 The phrases that separate a review that improves the work from one that just ranks it.
- Against the second monitor November 9 A small, petty, entirely subjective argument for one screen.
- Three years of keeping a work journal September 15 One file, one line a day, and the two moments it has quietly saved me.