The Design Decision
The gap between "works" and "feels right" — and the designer hat nobody certified you to wear.
All the hats. One head.
The gap between "works" and "feels right" — and the designer hat nobody certified you to wear.
The second project is the first one's rent — proof you can maintain, not just build.
Breaking your own work before anyone else does: the half of shipping nobody teaches.
The quiet project that just runs for a decade — the most underrated kind of shipping.
Wearing the PM hat solo: arguing with the only person who can override the spec.
The unpaid, uncoordinated, one-person libraries holding up every production system.