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Programming Abstractions Are Bets
Every abstraction is a bet, and early certainty deserves a little humility.
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Short, living notes—small observations and half-formed ideas from work and life, written down before they slip away. They grow a little every time I return to them.
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Programming Beacons
A variable named 'node' tells you half the story before you read a single line more.
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The Purpose of Highlights
If a highlight has no future action in it, you are only hoarding sentences.
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Reading Is Catching Balls
Meaning does not arrive in the mind by itself — reading is catching, and catching takes effort.
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Are There Recognizable Patterns of Valuable Thoughts?
Valuable thoughts usually move you toward action, a clearer question, or new understanding.
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Sense
Reasoning is expensive inference; sense is a trained model answering from its weights.
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Software Engineering Fatigue
Physics leads toward universal laws; frameworks often ask you to learn someone else’s chosen abstractions.
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Start New Behaviors in Boring, Easy Mode
Stop while you still want more — the unspent appetite is what pulls you back tomorrow.
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The Cost of Delayed Action
Delay doesn't preserve a task in amber — it lets the charge quietly leak out of it.