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Oh. One other thing. I tend to go backwards. UX first. Then API. Then whatever fuels it.

If I go the other way around I -inevitably- forget some stuff that is crucial for the front end implementation, whereas it’s hard to forget how it supposed to work for the user.

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That's funny because I always start at the database level and work up. If I start in the frontend it ends up getting rewritten too often.

That's SUPER interesting. We should form like Voltron. But also I wonder if that's a meaningful 'heuristic' to use both in analysing ones own performance but also in coaching others.

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