If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.

Innovation is not born out out of a committee innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.

One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correctly determine who on your team needs that piece of information to do their job.

Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

Your work speaks for you.

A milestone is less date and more definition.

I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.