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The Verbasil journal: what we build, what we test, what we learn while making a company memory.
After a break, the hard part is not getting back to work. It is finding the thread.
This morning I came back from a few days off. I wanted to get going again, but I no longer knew where to start. Here is what that morning taught me about what a break really erases, and what it never should.
A memory that keeps everything can lead you to worse decisions than no memory at all
Two months into building Verbasil, the most counter-intuitive engineering lesson did not come from what the memory forgets. It came from what it confidently brings back when it is no longer true.
The bug I would never have caught alone: my first week of beta
By testing Verbasil like a real user, I found a bug that weeks of coding on my own would never have surfaced. Here is what it taught me, and why I now build in front of people.