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- //learningessay
Learning by shipping
The fastest way to know if you understand a thing is to put it in front of a user and watch what they do. Tutorials are an inferior substitute for the embarrassment of releasing too early.
- //tasteessay
Taste as a deploy gate
If you can't articulate what 'good' looks like before you ship, you'll spend the rest of the quarter discovering it in production.
- //worldessay
The half-life of a good tool
Every tool you adopt this year will be wrong about something in three years. The discipline isn't picking the right one — it's noticing when a good one has gone bad.
- //teachtutorial
The system I actually use
The full inventory: every tool, template, and ritual I run my work through. Not the version on the conference talk — the version that survives a Tuesday.
- //buildarc episode
EP 01 · The decision to build in public
Day one of writing the company down as I build it. What I want from this. What I'm afraid of.
- //signalfield note
Field note: April
What I shipped, what I read, what I noticed in a month that did not go to plan.
- //signaldispatch
The 30-second rollback rule
If you can't undo it that fast, don't ship it. Make 'undo' a deploy gate, not a guideline.
- //teachtutorial
How to ship a rollback in under 30 seconds
A reproducible recipe for atomic-swap deploys with a working starter repo. No magic, no SaaS, no excuse.
- //mindessay
Why we refuse to ship anything that can't be rolled back in 30 seconds
The seatbelt rule that changed how my team thinks about risk, debt, and the difference between courage and stupidity.
- //mindannual
Annual: 2025
What I built, what I learned, what I'd do over. The first complete year of writing the work down as I do it.