Find a problem so big that you can spend at least 10 years of your life on, but that you can also demonstrate incremental progress towards. - Guillermo Rauch

There's no easy way from earth to the stars

Fitness is the true “rich get richer” equation of life. The more you work out, the stronger your mind and body, the easier and more effective the next incremental workout

An easy tell for how good an engineer is is what % of their time they spend on instrumentation, measurement, profiling, telemetry, analysis (and how well they leverage this expertise during incidents).

For AI to outperform human coders, the context and prompt will need to be enriched with data from the live production system. This will lead to self-improving, self-repairing software.