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You're Getting Better at the Wrong Thing
After 25 years, I'm convinced the craft problem and the character problem are the same problem.
May 24
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Michael Lawrence
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Correct, thorough, and addressed to nobody
Oct 4
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Michael Lawrence
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Nobody Ever Made You Read the Stack Trace
Attention isn't a skill you keep. It's one you keep doing.
Sep 27
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Michael Lawrence
Honesty Past Your Own Head: The Family You Didn't Choose
The people closest to you aren't the easiest to be honest with. They're the hardest.
Sep 20
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Michael Lawrence
Who You Are When "Developer" Stops Meaning What It Meant
The first draft doesn't have to come from you. The verification does.
Sep 13
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Michael Lawrence
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The Person Who Inherits Your Mess
You inherited someone's rushed Wednesday. Someday, somebody will inherit yours.
Sep 6
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Michael Lawrence
The Comment You Don't Leave
Nobody checks today. Someone inherits it in six months.
Aug 30
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Michael Lawrence
The Forecast Was Never the Point
Knowing what's coming was never the hard part. Knowing what to do about it always was
Aug 23
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Michael Lawrence
Somebody Is Still Vouching for You
You knew before they did. That gap is the part you own.
Aug 16
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Michael Lawrence
I Kept the Decisions and Gave Away the Typing
A CSV parser, a junior developer, and the wrong place to cut a task in half.
Aug 9
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Michael Lawrence
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What You Owe the Strangers Who Run Your Code
The build tells you it works. Nothing tells you what it does.
Aug 2
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Michael Lawrence
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Mentorship as a Debt, Not a Favor
You owe the company nothing. That was never the whole accounting
Jul 26
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