I recently started training Wing Chun. At first glance, it doesn't look like what most people expect from martial arts. There's no flash. No wasted motion. No emphasis on brute force. Everything is controlled, direct, and intentional. When I first walked into training, I expected to learn techniques—strikes, blocks, sequences. Instead, we spent time on something much simpler. Stance. Balance. Positioning. It wasn't exciting. It didn't feel like progress. But it quickly became clear that everything depended on it. In Wing Chun, there's a core idea that shows up in everything you do: Structure creates power. Economy of motion creates speed. The more I train, the more I realize how closely this maps to building software. Early on, speed feels easy. You're building something new. Writing code, shipping features, making decisions quickly. It feels like momentum. And in a way, it is—at least at the start. But over time, something changes. Small decisions begin to stack. Patterns drift.…