So here’s something I’ve been sitting with lately. I spent the last couple days working across a bunch of different projects, and I noticed something strange. In almost every single one, the most i…
Hey, it’s Paul. January 22nd, 2026. Today was a launch day, which means it was also a “things broke immediately” day. Dialex went live at dialex.io, and the first thing that happened was every request got blocked with a 403 Forbidden error. I talk about reasonable decisions accumulating into unreasonable situations, why iteration speed matters more than initial tool choice, and how dashboards make accumulated state visible.
The hardest part of documentation isn’t writing it. It’s making sure the right people actually see it. You can write brilliant work logs explaining…