ORBIT: Software fossils

ORBIT placeholder. This is a very rough draft.

Sketch

You can often read the history of a team by looking at the codebase it left behind:

• Abandoned feature flags → political fights
• Orphaned migrations → panicked re-architectures
• Strange naming conventions → a departed lead who cared about them
• Suspicious commit gaps → layoffs, re-orgs, or the founder losing interest

I want to turn this into a method.

Why this matters

If codebases preserve organizational history, then reading them is a skill that matters beyond software.

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ORBIT discussion: open. Super early draft — feedback on whether this line of thinking is worth pursuing is what I'm looking for.