The cost of doing code reviews is the obligatory burden of the whole context loaded in your brain before you start reviewing.

I try to take it as a self enforceable rule. It’s the least you can do.

It’s crazy that this has to be explicit.

~ updated at: 2025-03-25T09:35:22.557Z

While skimming through Simon’s list of posts¹, I realised that I’ve found the term that I’d been looking for – “Semantic Diffusion” (where the original idea/meaning dampens with time/loose adoption)

Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined by a person or group, often with a pretty good definition, but then gets spread through the wider community in a way that weakens that definition. This weakening risks losing the definition entirely - and with it any usefulness to the term.

~ updated at: 2025-03-25T07:25:35.323Z

I stumbled upon (by the magic of the internet) this piece on Agency.

High Agency in 30 Minutes

One can use it as a compass 🧭 (perspective wise) while solving hard problems / making decisions.

~ updated at: 2025-03-25T07:22:59.751Z