The Hidden Cost of Context-Switching Between Side Projects (And the Workflow That Ended It)
The expensive part of running several side projects is not the coding. It is the part nobody puts on a roadmap: sitting down Tuesday night to work on the project you last touched on Saturday, and spending the first fifteen minutes just trying to become the person who understood it.
I used to think my problem was time. Not enough hours, too many projects. So I optimized the obvious things. Cleaner repos. A task list. Tabs grouped by project. None of it touched the real cost, because the real cost was not in the doing. It was in the resuming.
The tax I was paying without seeing it
Here is the moment I mean. You open a project you have not looked at in four or five days. The code is yours, but it reads like a stranger wrote it. You stare at the function you were halfway through and ask the only question that matters: what was I actually doing here?
