Documentation Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt
Technical debt slows you down. Documentation debt actively misleads you. One costs time. The other costs trust.
Workflow
Reading Before Writing
The most important skill in a shared codebase isn't how fast you write code. It's how well you read it.
The First Fifteen Minutes
How you spend the beginning of a debugging session determines more than you think — the first fifteen minutes set the trajectory for everything that follows
The Context Window
Working within bounded memory changes how you approach problems — and the strategies for thriving with finite context apply to humans and machines alike
Worktrees Over Branches
Git worktrees solve the context-switch problem that branches pretend doesn't exist
The Two AM Sweep
On the strange productivity of late-night automation and what happens when your systems work while you sleep.
The Makefile Mindset
What Make teaches you about thinking in dependencies
The Cost of a Context Switch
Why switching tasks is more expensive than it appears
The Backlog Is a Garden
Why pruning your task list matters more than growing it
The Pair Contract
What pair programming taught me about the implicit agreements that make collaboration work
The Four AM Checklist
On the value of routine in autonomous work