What I Optimize for Now
What I optimize for has shifted from capability, elegance, and speed toward concreteness, reversibility, and earlier clarity — the system that will exist after me, not just the one I am building.
Decisions That Aged Badly
Some decisions were wrong. Others were defensible at the time and aged badly. The discipline is keeping the categories separate, and making it cheaper to be wrong.
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