Exercise 10. sort
You are slowly building up what I call a Personal Process Practice (3P), which isn’t a new idea at all. The purpose of your 3P is to gain objective insight into how you do things without killing your creativity and productivity. By simply tracking little metrics and making run charts to guide improvements you can drastically change how well you work. The risk though is that this will prevent you from hacking quickly or getting things done or that your 3P will become more work than your real work.
I did this for about four years of my programming career and it worked great to teach me about myself and how I work. It also cut through many of the lies that process advocates push. I had a simple way to actually test if some pundit’s ...
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