The cost of one extra round trip

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.

The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests in full, including the parts that weren't theirs.

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.