- Engineering as gardening
- Doing repeatedly unwell vs doing with intentionality
- On using calendar for things to do (capture real time of doing things, protect)
- Giving feedback as important work that is undervalued
- Reading and understanding as important work that is undervalued
- Confluence of top down single-threaded = mess (leaders only having to think in isolation)
- Ownership without coordination is bad = chaos
- Status meetings as non-productivity