If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.