The keyboard you type on, the editor you live in, the chat client that interrupts you — each of these is quietly shaping the kind of work you find easy and the kind you find hard. Tools are not neutral. They have opinions, and they install those opinions in the hands that use them daily.
This is why tool choice matters more than tool quality. A worse tool that supports your taste will produce better work than a better tool that fights it.
Choose tools the way you would choose neighbours. You will adopt their habits whether you mean to or not.
