Whatever you build, make it kind to the people who’ll have to maintain it.

Anything you make gets handed on: the code, the garden, the filing, the system for running the fundraiser. Whoever inherits it will have none of your context and all of your shortcuts. Building for your own convenience today usually means somebody spending a week later working out why you did it that way. Consideration here is practical rather than sentimental.

Before you finish the next thing you make, leave a short note on how it works and why. Label the parts a stranger would misread. And when you inherit something awkward, fix one piece of it rather than only complaining about it.