Carlos Balbuena

…lex tools, etc.— I’m just finally ready to take the advice of that programmer all those years ago — write less code, just the code you need.

…also know more than they do. If they dug a tunnel on one end, trust that their judgement is sound. Challenge their decisions at every step, so that they’re able to reflect properly, but don’t ask for explicit changes, let them do course correction.

You need to empower people to say “No”. And take their answer as being the correct one, since they are the professionals. Don’t be like our…