Aphorisms

Aphorisms

Things I keep saying at work. Compressed essays; some will decompress into real ones. Click one to copy it.

The cost of delegation is collapsing toward the cost of description.

A feature isn’t done when it works. It’s done when it fails well.

Demo-ability and value are usually inversely correlated, because everyone builds where the demos are.

Taste you can’t explain can’t be delegated.

Agents will do the work, but they will not lose sleep over the work.

Don’t assign work you can’t evaluate.

Every company becomes the smallest number of people who can hold its outcomes in their heads.