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Fireside with the maker of Deadlinewatch
I spent 20 years carrying other people's deadlines, and I knew there had to be a better way to hold them. I built one, the way I'd solve any hard problem. This is the personal story of how, and what it cost.
Everything I removed
Adding a feature feels like progress, because you can see the new thing. Removing one feels like loss. The removals were the progress.
The tool I wanted would have made me worse.
I wanted a tool that would tell me what to do. I built one. Then I learned that the telling was the part I had to take back out.
The years before the tool
I didn't set out to build a deadline tool. I set out to stop doing a particular kind of arithmetic in my head, and the tool is what was left when I finished.