Redesigning The Basic Pattern Set: what I learned by almost getting it wrong

I’ve been deep in the redesign of The Basic Pattern Set for the past few weeks, and I wanted to pull back the curtain on the process, partly because a few of you have asked what’s taking so long, and partly because I think the mistakes I almost made are more useful to talk about than the parts that went smoothly. Why redesign at all The current edition works. People use it, it sells, I still stand…