1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems.
2. Being right is cheap. Getting to right together is the real work.
3. Bias towards action. Ship. You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one.
4. Clarity is seniority. Cleverness is overhead.
5. Novelty is a loan you repay in outages, hiring, and cognitive overhead.
6. Your code doesn’t advocate for you. People do.
7. The best code is the code you never had to write.
8. At scale, even your bugs have users.
9. Most “slow” teams are actually misaligned teams.
10. Focus on what you can control. Ignore what you can’t.
11. Abstractions don’t remove complexity. They move it to the day you’re on call.
12. Writing forces clarity. The fastest way to learn something better is to try teaching it.
13. The work that makes other work possible is priceless – and invisible.
14. If you win every debate, you’re probably accumulating silent resistance.
15. When a measure becomes a target, it stops measuring.