> leaving the system / code too clean makes it hard to know what to work on next
I've heard about the idea in this post often in other contexts (e.g. writers stopping in the middle of a sentence), but I've always been the type of guy who likes everything to be clean when I stop for the day. But that does indeed make it very hard to know where to start the next day (or even worse, two weeks later when coming back from vacation). Sometimes it takes me days to get back into the work and it doesn't feel good.
I've heard about the idea in this post often in other contexts (e.g. writers stopping in the middle of a sentence), but I've always been the type of guy who likes everything to be clean when I stop for the day. But that does indeed make it very hard to know where to start the next day (or even worse, two weeks later when coming back from vacation). Sometimes it takes me days to get back into the work and it doesn't feel good.
I will definitely try this out.