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how to do stuff - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind

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the last few months have been very productive! some highlights include: building ddr, reading two long russian novels, writing fiction, fixing up my website, getting more clarity at work. a few observations from recent project lifecycles: i. strong vs weak links (this terminology comes from science is a strong-link problem) early on in most projects i assess the quality of my work based on potential value, and towards the end there’s a shift to assessing quality based on actualized value. this roughly corresponds to the difference between exploring and finishing. one consequence of this shift is that, in the beginning, the quality assessment is dominated by my strongest skills (which tend to be the reason i started the project), while towards the end the quality assessment is dominated by my weakest skills (which are usually the bottleneck to being done) as a concrete example - i think with ALIGNMENT it was pretty clear that my strengths were prose / narration and my weaknesses were pa

how to do stuff process notes i vincent huang Aug 05, 2025 26 3 Share the last few months have been very productive! some highlights include: building ddr, reading two long russian novels, writing fiction, fixing up my website, getting more clarity at work. a few observations from recent project lifecycles: i. strong vs weak links (this terminology comes from science is a strong-link problem ) early on in most projects i assess the quality of my work based on potential value, and towards the end there’s a shift to assessing quality based on actualized value. this roughly corresponds to the dif

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