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You shouldn’t put more energy into refuting an argument than the other person put into making it. [Read More]

There’s a lot of work invisible to end-users in software. A big time sink is extending the software’s capabilities, which are non-user-visible technical infrastructure that allow the software to do more stuff. [Read More]

When I think about overengineering, I think about a few specific coding habits that everybody does to some degree. And recognizing these is largely driven by experience, both messing up yourself and seeing other peoples’ mistakes. So it’s really hard to convince somebody without that experience that’s what’s happening. [Read More]

I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. [Read More]

You probably need to do fewer things right now. [Read More]