Notes to myself, written down so I stop relearning them.
The org chart is the architecture. Fix the conversation before the code.
Boring technology is a love letter to whoever is on call.
The first people you hire don't join the culture. They become it.
Every rescue you perform teaches your team that someone will always catch them. Stop catching.
A senior person's casual opinion is a junior person's requirement. Hold fewer opinions, harder.
Anyone can add. Mastery is knowing what survives subtraction — Beckett knew this better than any architect I've met.
The street crowd owes you nothing. Neither does the steering committee. Earn the attention or lose it honestly.
Improvement is boring. The two hundredth slow lap is the one that changes you.
You must go on. You can't go on. Push the stone anyway — and try to imagine yourself happy about it.