Writing
Most of this is Temper Line — the thesis these tools come from. The boundary between soft knowledge and hard knowledge is permanent terrain, and the craft is working that boundary.
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Start here — why this site is shaped like this
Tools With Opinions
I published three essays as an experiment, then went quiet for two months. The thesis kept going without me and came back as software.
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Stay Close Enough to Stop
Sometimes the discipline of staying close to the work tells you what to build. Sometimes it tells you to stop.
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Reset to Zero
Every decision up the chain was rational. The information between them wasn't. What it costs an organization to perform certainty it doesn't have.
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Great PMs Don't Agonize
There's a permanent gap between what's documented and what's real. Great builders stop trying to close it and start working inside it.
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