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The Cut Starts at the Pencil Line
Careful layout is not separate from craft; it is where the craft begins.
A crooked cut usually starts before the saw turns on. It starts when you tell yourself the pencil mark is close enough or the board will pull square later. I made better work once I treated layout as part of the build, not the delay before it.
Shared from one person's lived experience, not offered as a universal rule.