That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.