the scene of chalk lines on a tennis court blew my mind when i first saw it in the founder movie. it introduced me to system design and the importance of process back in 2018. later, my professor recommended i read the toyota way. the book drilled it deeper—about designing workflows that make work effortless. when we started our first data annotation project, it was a mess. wake up → firefight → get exhausted → repeat. we were drowning in tasks. no time to think, no time to grow. ronak and i always had different approaches. he believes in building systems from day one. i wanted to scale fast and figure out systems and such stuff later. we argue (and still argue) a lot, but eventually, we arrived at a middle ground: we build systems the moment something becomes repeatable. after the operational turmoil of our first project, we stepped back, dissected workflows, mapped processes, and optimized each component. a task requiring 60 minutes became 55, then 50. we found equilibrium. f...