Software Design: Tidy First?

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Another project-related Thinkie: make feedback personal.

When I worked at Gusto, although we sold a payroll service we didn’t use Gusto to pay ourselves. In the very early days we had paid ourselves with our own system, but as Gusto grew we decided that keeping up with our own growth would be too distracting.

Here’s the thing—yes, it would have been “dist…

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