Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.

Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.

Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design mistakes one can make.

Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.

Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).