2025 Year in Review: The Engineering Skill I Had to Unlearn
On uncertainty, and learning too late how progress actually works
2025 was the year I realised an attitude which had carried me through my career had been silently failing me.
Eleven years of working as a software engineer had taught me to be incredibly careful. I’d never start a project without knowing exactly what I needed to do, and how long it would take. If there was anything I was…



