PR-001 has this instruction at the end:

Nobody reads that and immediately understands what it costs to follow it.

The problem is never the code. Code is learnable. The problem is staying when the blockers aren't code. The installer requires admin privileges. The build tool has a missing dependency. The release needs to be uploaded manually. The service needs an env file that lives outside version control, typed by hand into a production machine at midnight.

Most of the work of building something real is doing things that aren't impressive.

The hardest part is never the first step. The first step has the idea behind it. The last step has proximity to the finish. The hard part is the one in the mi…