“what's the impact of this decision how does the entire repo and the community of developers at large benefit from this change it can't be well I like doing it this way or it can't be well it compiles faster okay what is faster about three milliseconds like I don't care”

Filter every PR with: 'how does the whole community benefit?'

Josh's filter for contributor PRs is a single question: 'tangible benefit to everyone?' Preference-based arguments and bikeshed wins (3ms faster compile) get killed fast. As a solo founder shipping in public, the same filter applies to internal debate: stop optimizing the codebase for an imaginary future team and just make the call. The market doesn't reward elegant abstractions on an unlaunched product.