Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.