The Judgement
Dude, it fucking ruled the wrong way
Adam Hutchinson
Thoughts on building product with taste and intent
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Building with friction
Friction is important, yet I work hard to remove it
Turbocharged solo dev — zooming out a couple of clicks
Pulling the best habits of Intercom and Linear into solo dev and dropping the ones that slow things down
Comfort is uncomfortable
Things that are hard to do mean more
Silence is expensive
Trying to debug how I operate
The curse of taste
The curse of taste
Sending a robot
Sending a robot
Simplicity is invisible
The work doesn't show, the judgement does
Big fish, small tank
Why growth comes from resistance, not comfort
Structure enables speed
Structure gives just enough constraint to make speed possible
Taste is the throughline
Taste is the throughline
Complexity is a cult
Complexity is a cult
Staff engineers don't outsource judgement
Staff+ engineers don't outsource judgement
Taking risks
Taking risks vs minimizing everything
The plan is not the territory
Why tight scope is the most reliable way to cut through uncertainty
The first version is not the final version
How I shipped this site
A battleships game I built in one day (in 2014)
I found a fully functional Battleships game I built in a single day during a 2014 work trial. Looking at it now, it accidentally shows how I’ve always approached engineering.