What shipped instead
We planned eleven features and shipped six. Writing down which five died, and why, turned out to be the most useful document of the year.
Field notes
Short, dated, unpolished. Experiments in progress and the results we did not expect.
Walking is not a break from the work
For years I walked to recover from thinking. Then I noticed every structural problem I solved last year was solved outdoors, and none at the desk.
The notebook that survived three rewrites
Every system I have abandoned left one habit behind.
Field notes from a month without recommendations
I turned off every algorithmic feed for thirty-one days and wrote down what I actually chose. The results were duller and far better than expected.
On keeping a changelog for yourself
Software ships with release notes. People rarely do. A small practice for noticing that you have, in fact, changed.
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