21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Before you build, exhaust the question: “What would happen if we just… didn’t?” Sometimes the answer is “nothing bad,” and that’s your solution.
The problem isn’t that engineers can’t write code or use AI to do so. It’s that we’re so good at writing it that we forget to ask whether we should.
Great read and a great reminder that action beats overthinking, overplanning, and overengineering. Start with something, see it through then iterate and build on top of it.