I overclocked my brain yesterday ​

i'm honestly pleased with the results, however, I exercised my brain muscle to absolute failure yesterday. Honestly, the whole weekend. I have a tendency to try and keep momentum going when I have any kind of software development win.

It has proved to be extremely fruitful over the last 25 years, but my body has no problem reminding me that I am 45 now not 25. The intention for the day since I exercised to the point of failure was to treat it as a rest day. Just like I would if I was lifting. I only halfway succeeded.

I made a strict guideline for myself on important projects. It's deceptively simple. Just be present. Focus on the task at hand. Even when you're just watching a progress bar. My current project deserves this attention. The software robots have no reservations about handing you absolute garbage if you're not vigilant. Claude deserves the respect of me being present. i'm finding over and over again that approaching agents like a trusted colleague breeds the highest quality outcomes. And I deserve to be confident that at every step of this journey I have cohesive verifiable outcomes. Part of that is absolute adherence to TDD anywhere it's available. That takes care of the mechanical regression protection.

The part that I somewhat failed at is that I do have sessions running on the big boy project today. But it's internal documentation and repository housekeeping. Minor tasks that are going to set me up for success when I do have the focus to push through to GTM. i'm nearly there. This is not the time to take my eye off the ball.

I've got this

(PS: this post is for me not you, dear reader. Sometimes it be that way.)