The estimate and the invoice never match
Six years of comparing what I said a project would take against what it took. The gap is consistent, which means it is not an accident.
Systems
The invisible scaffolding — infrastructure, maintenance, and the economics of keeping things running.
Attention is a budget, not a mood
I stopped waiting to feel focused and started spending the hours I actually had.
What a slow deploy taught me about attention
Eleven minutes of waiting, every single time. It should have been infuriating. Instead it became the only reliable thinking window in the week.
The quiet economics of maintaining things
Why I stopped measuring the wrong week
Weekly metrics flatter whoever picks the week. A short argument for the rolling quarter and the long memory it forces.
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