Comment by kayo_20211030

Every engineer should read this. It's a wonderful collection of heuristics that might seem banal, but which are shimmeringly true.

The two that stand out are

> Novelty is a loan you repay in outages, hiring, and cognitive overhead.

and

> Abstractions don’t remove complexity. They move it to the day you’re on call.

as a warning against about being too, too clever.