Bullet points...
- Type II fun connoisseur
- OSS enthusiast
- Practical philosopher
You should read...
- The Eternal Enemy: Complexity
- The Demon-Haunted World
- The Scout Mindset
- Thinking in Systems
- The Phoenix Project
- Chesterton’s fence
- Goodhart’s law
- Conway’s law
- The parable of the two watchmakers
- How to Disagree
- You Ain't Gonna Need It
- Why You Should Stop Reading News
- The Book of Five Rings
- Extreme Ownership
- Thinking From First Principles
- Kolmogorov Complexity
- The World is Underpopulated
You should watch...
- Common mistakes that every engineer makes
- Building computers from cellular automota
- How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster
- A reminder that failure is a normal and expected part of forward progress
- Elon Musk talking about design process whilst giving Tim Dodd a tour of starbase
- Make requirements less dumb - your requirements are dumb.
- Delete part or process - Cut a lot, add back if needed
- Simplify or optimize - don't optimize what shouldn't exist.
- Accelerate cycle time - once you got 1-3 done, go faster
- Automate