Work as if writing is the only thing that matters

Have you ever spent hours debugging code only to find yourself back at square one? Our brain is a lousy place to store information. When you are writing code or debugging, always be writing.

If you spent the last 30 minutes working and there’s no code or writing artifacts produced, you are doing it wrong.

• Ran a bunch of tests? Write the results
• Are you investigating a bug? Write every thing you tried. Write down your hypothesis.
• Tried to refactor something and you didn’t like the result? Write what you tried and why it hasn’t worked.
• Are you trying to understand legacy code? Write documentation, write tests.