Quiet UIs and loud bugs

When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out which mental model of mine was wrong, and update that.

Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me has now stopped trusting. Comments rot faster than code.

I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling catches up.