Daily Dose of Curious

Write the note for the version of you that has forgotten everything. That one always turns up.

29 SEP 2026ENGINEERING

Tomorrow you still have the context and the note can be short. Next year you will have none of it, and neither will whoever inherits the job. The useful note records why, because what is already visible from the work.

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