"Listen and try to understand others' viewpoints. Different isn't wrong."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"Listen to your stakeholders. If they bring up issues—and they inevitably will—try not to take offense. Instead, use this as an opportunity to improve what you’ve built."By Fundamentals of Data Engineering
"Maintaining a good balance between being pragmatic, yet visionary, is an excellent way of gaining respect as an architect. Business stakeholders will appreciate visionary solutions that fit within a set of constraints, and developers will appreciate having a practical (rather then theoretical) solution to implement."By Fundamentals of Software Architecture
"management should never be seen as a promotion—it’s a change of profession with a different set of skills to learn. There should be no change in status when you go from people leadership to technical leadership or vice versa: each will build a separate set of skills, and will enhance the skills on the other side"—The Staff Engineer's Path
"Many think the more code, the better. In fact, running software in production for a long period of time has proven the opposite to be true: code is a liability."Serverless Development on AWS