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Keeping a paper trail I write almost nothing down. The handful of things I do write down end up in a folder with a date on it, and after a year that folder is the only honest record of what I was thinking. Ship the broken thing A project sat at eighty percent for four months because I was waiting for it to be finished. I published it as-is. Two days later I knew exactly which twenty percent was missing, which is more than I knew before. The empty folder I made the directory, wrote nothing inside it, and left it there for a month. It turned out that the empty folder was doing more work than most of the filled ones.