Christopher Philip Hebert

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2025-02-19

Make every change in such a way that it can easily be reverted.

Not all changes are amenable to this approach, either in software or in life.

The process, if not the fact, of making a change in a revert-able fashion results in a better-designed change than would have been arrived at if an irreversible change were accepted.

There is a distinct lack of git commit --revert in life for some (if not the most) significant subset of commitments.

You can undo joining a book club.