Thoughts

Random thoughts

  • Every simple system is a complex system with the complexity moved somewhere you were not looking.
  • The best documentation I have read this year was a changelog. Somebody wrote down what changed and why, in order, and it answered every question I had.
  • If your dashboard has never been wrong, you have never looked at it properly.
  • A deadline is a model of how long something takes, and it is usually a worse model than the one in the code.
  • Nairobi is a city that rewards people who can hold two contradictory maps of it at once — the one in the app, and the one in the conductor’s head.