The Maker's Loop, by William Forty

William Forty has been a software engineer for around twenty years. He builds things constantly: daily puzzle games, an AI video pipeline, a procedural cartoon maker, a rocket-jump platformer, and the tools that let one person keep a couple of dozen projects moving at once.

The Maker's Loop is his framework for how good things get made: not planned perfectly up front, but built early, put in front of people, and rethought because of what comes back. Every lap bigger than the last.

He's honest about where he sits in it. In his words: “I'm an inventor. The loop is how an inventor becomes a maker.”