Kassen Qian

There are idiosyncrasies of software development that are invariant even as technique and technology improves, and so you are bound to recapitulate these patterns eventually.

Your team dynamic is something you can always affect, even if you have no meaningful influence over the major strategic decisions of an organization.

You’re a router: Act as a traffic cop and bring the right info to the right people.

We don’t launch on date, we launch on quality.

Basic structures cannot be composed into larger structures unless they themselves are internally consistent, and so the creation of software, just like any artifact of language, is naturally incremental.Software is a very verbose, very precise incantation of how an information system ought to behave.