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Most companies hardwire a feedback loop between development teams and product or business managers that teaches developers they will be rewarded for their ability to unsafely hack things into a Jenga tower of system components for the sake of rapidly addressing ad hoc business questions even when, perhaps especially when, nobody has the slightest idea if answering the ad hoc business request is likely to be worth the additional instability the hacks will put into the Jenga tower. [Read More]

Understanding how things are put together and how they work is the first step toward improving them.

 

You have to give yourself some slack, because learning how to make barbecue takes time, and not everything’s going to be a big success.

Aaron Franklin, Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto, Ten Speed Press, 2015.

Is there commercial value in knowing what someone “liked” 15 years ago? Because that’s the future of Facebook.

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[While working on The Boondocks], the [Korean] animators were always asking why Huey didn’t smile—it was a golden rule that Huey never smiles—and we’d get all these storyboards back with Huey smiling all over the place. They said to us, “We don’t understand why he shouldn’t smile,” so we tried to think of one word that would sum up why he didn’t smile. We said “Malcolm X,” and they went “Ooh. [Read More]

The only compliment you can pay a complicated procedure (and this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel) is to say that at least all of the #$%@! code is in one place.

Sandi Metz