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R. Hadi · Mar 4

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.

Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when you go over.

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.

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

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