The first hour is the whole day
Protecting a long afternoon is a losing strategy. What actually determines the shape of a working day is the first sixty minutes of it.
Dana Okonkwo 3 min read 2
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A workbench is an argument
Every workshop encodes a theory of how work should go. Most people never notice they are living inside someone else's.
Mira Solheim 2 min read 2
Slow software is a design position
Software that refuses to grow is not underdeveloped. Often it is the only kind that survives being maintained by one person.
Rui Almeida 2 min read 2
Notes from a week without a phone
Seven days, one notebook, and a lot of small discoveries about what the pocket rectangle was actually being used for.
Mira Solheim 2 min read 2
What I read this quarter
Six books, two of them worth your time, one of them worth reading twice.
Dana Okonkwo 1 min read 2