Create the Future

Attention is like a spotlight that magnifies anything it touches… anything you put your attention on gets bigger and stronger and prospers.

Ethics, Conservation and Privacy

• Respect and advocate the engineer’s obligation to serve humanity.
• Consider and make the best use of available resources.
• Maintenance should be equally weighted against innovation.
• Systems that create, curate and disseminate information—as well as information itself—can be tools of both oppression and liberation.
• New data is itself a cost and responsibility.
• Work to promote a future where technology can be implemented in ways that protect civil liberties.

Purpose, Substance and Sustainability

• Industrial development serves highly mutable business requirements that outlive any single engineer.
• Good code is easy to delete.
• Focus on immediate utility over presumed reusability, sprawling abstraction and premature optimization.
• Deliver real results through pragmatic solutions encouraging readability, maintainability and testability.

Inspiration and Aspiration

• Learn from what you like and apply it to what you do.
• The art of listening is infinitely more powerful than speaking.
• It is better to succeed than to be right.
• Share success. Own failure.
• Leave it better than you found it.
• Encourage, embrace and emit energy you enjoy.
• Good judgement is what produces trust, not quality, quantity or pure technical skill.
• The beginnings of all things are small.