Notes on building, thinking, and the space between.
Essays on software craft, decision-making, and the quiet mechanics of getting things made — written slowly, meant to be read the same way.
Loops Of Life
Whatever you do, it creates a loop, which has an innate ability to give rise to a bigger loop and the quality of that loop depends on the present one
The Discipline of Deciding
Motivation is a mood. Discipline is a decision you make once, so you don't have to make it again every morning.
What the Compiler Teaches About Patience
A compiler never lies to spare your feelings. That honesty, repeated ten thousand times, quietly rewires how you think.
Working Memory, Not Willpower
You don't have a discipline problem. You have seven slots of working memory and forty open tabs competing for them.
On Building in Public, Slowly
Every unfinished project was once the most exciting idea I'd ever had. That excitement is not the same thing as a plan.