Reading the standard library

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.

There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this out?" Often, no one does.

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.

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.