Chronic Context Switching

You sat down to add one endpoint and you are now upgrading a build tool. Every step was a correct call. Here is why a chain of good engineering decisions ends miles from the goal, and how to put an edge on it before it takes the day.

You said it would take an hour. You are four hours in, and you cannot say where the afternoon went. Here is what time blindness actually looks like, why trying harder to estimate has never once corrected it, and how to build a clock you can read.

You were at the desk from eight until seven and you cannot name what shipped. Here is what chronic context switching actually looks like, why the cost of every switch stays off the books, and how to get one unbroken block back.