"Do What Works, Not What's Fashionable"By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"Effective visions ground themselves in serving your users and your business. That tight connection keeps the vision aligned with your leadership team’s core values–users and business. Bad visions treat technical sophistication as a self-justifying raison d’être–a view that is never shared by your company’s leadership."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"Embrace the fact that debugging is just problem solving, and attack it as such."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"Escalating doesn’t mean raising a ruckus or complaining about the other team. It means holding a polite conversation with someone who has the power to help, and trying to solve a problem together. Keep it constructive."—The Staff Engineer's Path
"Estimates given at the coffee machine will (like the coffee) come back to haunt you."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition