The Oncall
Ship fast, get paged at 3am: the engineer and the ops hat are the same person, six months apart.
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All the hats. One head.
Saying No
The rejected list — features declined, integrations passed on — is most of the actual work.
The Design Decision
The gap between "works" and "feels right" — and the designer hat nobody certified you to wear.
The Second Thing
The second project is the first one's rent — proof you can maintain, not just build.
Test Your Own Work
Breaking your own work before anyone else does: the half of shipping nobody teaches.
The Old Project
The quiet project that just runs for a decade — the most underrated kind of shipping.
The Spec
Wearing the PM hat solo: arguing with the only person who can override the spec.
The Dependency
The unpaid, uncoordinated, one-person libraries holding up every production system.