"Celebrate shipping things to users, rather than milestones that are only visible to internal teams. You don’t get to celebrate until users are happily using your system. If you’re doing a migration, celebrate that the old thing got turned off, not that the new thing got launched."—The Staff Engineer's Path
"Code versioning has more or less become a standard in the industry. However, at this point, data versioning is like flossing. Everyone agrees it’s a good thing to do, but few do it."By Designing Machine Learning Systems
"Companies don’t hire engineers simply to hack on code in isolation. To be worthy of their title, engineers should develop a deep understanding of the problems they’re tasked with solving, the technology tools at their disposal, and the people they work with and serve."By Fundamentals of Data Engineering
"Criticize the code, not the person. “Let's look at this block” sounds much better than “you're wrong.”"By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"Defining leadership and management is such heavily trodden terrain that it’s hard to add much to it, but roughly management is a specific profession, and leadership is an approach one can demonstrate within any profession."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track