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2025 Year in Review: The Engineering Skill I Had to Unlearn

On uncertainty, and learning too late how progress actually works

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Tommy McDevitt
Dec 31, 2025
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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…

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