Writing Is the Spec
2026-07-15 · 4 min · Writing, Process
Why I write the story before the system, in every discipline I work in.
Before a PCB, before a shot list, before a build order — I write a page of plain prose describing what the finished thing does to a person.
If that page is dull, no amount of engineering will rescue it. If that page is alive, the engineering becomes obvious.
The document is not overhead. The document is the machine, in draft form.