In 2004, Lawrence Lessig sent out a mass email to his entire contact list saying, more or less: “Sorry, I deleted all your emails without reading them. If it was important, send it again.” He had spent 80 hours that week trying to empty an inbox cluttered with emails dating back to 2002. He was getting 200 emails per day. Lessig wasn’t disorganized. He was a Law Professor at Stanford. And even so, email defeated him. ...
Less than a month ago I wrote an entire post explaining how to use three memory layers with Claude Code: Linear for strategy, Beads for tactics, and Tasks for execution. A nice, elegant pyramid. Yeah, no. Today I’m retiring Beads. Not on a whim, but because reality has made it abundantly clear that a tool causing more problems than it solves isn’t a tool. It’s dead weight. What Beads Brought to the Table For those who didn’t read the original post, Beads was a git-backed issue tracker. A Claude Code plugin that stored issues in JSONL files inside your repo. Brilliant idea on paper: ...