At what point does meta-work become work?
This reminds me a bit of a blog post I wrote over a decade ago, looking at the first few steps we took in our "big rewrite" project at work: https://corfield.org/blog/2014/06/03/getting-started/
Step #0: choose a ticket tracking system. Then the first few tickets were somewhat meta, such as choosing a version control system, figuring out how to communicate project planning, etc.
This reminds me a bit of a blog post I wrote over a decade ago, looking at the first few steps we took in our "big rewrite" project at work: https://corfield.org/blog/2014/06/03/getting-started/
Step #0: choose a ticket tracking system. Then the first few tickets were somewhat meta, such as choosing a version control system, figuring out how to communicate project planning, etc.