Energy & Mind
Sleep, stress, exercise — for builders.
Quotes
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Solo builders trade sleep for code more than any other group. It's the most expensive trade in the long run.
A clear conscience is the surest sign of a bad memory.
Funny but true: forgetting yesterday's open loops is half the trick to working calmly today. A good shutdown ritual buys this.
You can't pour from an empty cup.
Folk wisdom but worth keeping. The week you skip your run is the week the bug count doubles.
Essays
The cost of inheriting someone else's assumptions
When you import someone else's data, you also import all the guesses they made and never admitted to.
The body keeping score while you research
You can optimize a trading system to the decimal place and still blow the whole edge by showing up depleted.