"As a pure code monkey, my greatest asset is unquestionably my ability to organize, to rapidly arrange and re-arrange ideas out there in mind-stuff, where the Platonic forms live. To do that, I have to know where things are now, what kind of things they are, their size & shape. But situating myself isn't just remembering what's there. It's ultimately formulating some kind of change-plan. I do that by doing things that amount to a kind of labeling: "blocker", "detail", "totally irrelevant", "bingo", "scary", "hackable"."

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