Saturday, January 10, 2026

📝 Ephemeral Notes

• Read https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/

  • Best engineers are those that can navigate the things around code: people, politics, alignment and ambiguity
  • Understand user problems deeply and then let solutions emerge from that understanding
    • It is easy to be a magpie and be seduced by a new technology
    • Allows the engineer who truly understand user pain to find the elegant solution
  • Bias towards action
    • You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one
  • Code doesn’t advocate for you, people do

  Decisions are made in meetings you are not invited to, using summaries you didn’t write - if no one can articulate your impact when you’re not in the room - your impact is effectively optional

  • “Slow” teams are just misaligned teams
    • Teams are units of concurrency, coordination costs grow geometrically as teams multiply
  • Abstraction don’t remove complexity, they move it to the day you are on call
    • LOL I legit laughed at this statement at how true this feels
    • Abstraction is a bet that you won’t need to understand what is underneath
  • Teaching is debugging your own mental model
  • Turn glue work like documentation, onboarding, process improvement into artifacts that is visible and legible
    • Priceless and invisible is a dangerous combination
  • Real alignment takes time
    • Winning debates doesn’t mean because others are convince it means they have given up
  • Every metric should be paired with one that measures quality or risk
  • Invest in networking and relationships because that will outlast your job

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