Welcome to the WIP

Yamashita's post argues for a simple cultural shift: share work-in-progress earlier, more visibly, more comfortably. Most product organisations accidentally reward polished artefacts — documents ready to present, designs ready to ship — and punish the messy middle where most of the thinking actually happens. The post is a manifesto for the opposite practice, and a useful companion to Manrubia's "Radiating Programmer" from the same tradition. For product direction it is a small but portable argument: every team you work with has a signal-to-noise ratio on visibility, and making WIP safer to share usually improves both the work and the coordination. Short, illustrated, easy to pass around internally.