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Planning is overrated. Things won’t go your way, because you wrote them down. This is where discipline is required.

Instead of planning, we would rather "Zappa" things. Improvising towards the end goal, while ensuring the non-negotiables.

Our code reviews are direct, non-personal and honest. Any work not meeting our standards is not shipped. This is necessary to achieve greatness.

Simplifying a system means completely removing a part of it. Most of the time though, we do not do that. We decide how to position complexity.

Talking a lot is easy. Speaking concisely is harder. Communicating with clarity, is on another level of difficulty. Why though?

There are two kinds of slow: unintentional, where things spiral out of control, and intentional, where slowness is a trade-off for a better outcome.

Pulses is the GitHub App that helps your team get aligned by replacing recurring meetings, like daily stand-ups, with scheduled GitHub discussions.

There is something deeply human and intimate about putting your signature on your work implying a direct moral responsibility for its results.