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Anyone who spends about a half day per week as a member of a planning, advisory, or coordinating group has the equivalent of a subordinate.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desperately trying to forget, that makes all of them absurdly expensive and destined to fail, even if the things we want from them are beautiful and desirable and well worth working on. Here is the very bad news:
Regulation is a centralized function.
The job of regulation is to stop distributed systems from going awry.
Because distributed systems always go awry.
100 Years of Whatever This Will Be - Apenwarr
apenwarr.ca
A junior engineer writes comments that explain what the code does. A mid-level engineer writes comments that explain why the code does what it does. A senior engineer writes comments that explain why the code isn't written in another way.
I Saw Someone Quip (On Twitter, I Think) Many Years Ago Something Like:
ycombinator.com
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