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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. (Alfred North Whitehead, 1911.)
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
It's hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, every day that I program I use this, right? It is one of the key things that keeps me sane. Like, you can make lots of other features of the language away from me but like with my last dying breath I will keep my exhaustiveness checks.
Domain experts, not domain owners.
An important thing that distinguishes a expert as distinct from an owner is that you encourage the expert to devote some of their time to helping others work in their discipline.
Egoless Engineering
egoless.engineering
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