Writing
Essays, notes after reading, citations worth keeping and questions I am still working through. Some pieces are finished. Some are deliberately not.
The cost of building the wrong thing quickly
Speed only helps once you know what you are building. Before that, it just gets you to the wrong place sooner.
Writing software you can still read next year
Most code is read far more often than it is written, usually by someone who has forgotten writing it. That someone is normally you.
What a book about decisions changed in how I run projects
Book Title, by Author Name
The idea that stayed with me was not about thinking better. It was about noticing which mode of thinking a situation deserves.
On the difference between simple and easy
Author Name
A line worth keeping, about why the simplest option so rarely feels like the convenient one.
Write the brief you wish you had been given
A short habit that has saved me more rework than any process: before starting, write the brief back in my own words and send it to whoever asked.
If code gets cheaper to write, what gets more expensive?
An open question I do not have a settled answer to. If producing software stops being the constraint, the constraint moves somewhere. I would like to know where.