
…t has been leveraged by your business over time to deliver value to customers and generate revenue. Acknowledging that gives you reverence for the code as it is and re-centers you around the goal of not breaking what works and only fixing what doesn’t or adding your new feature.
vacation reduces the quality of your w…e people felt they had to come into the office — or work remotely —when they were down with a cold. Coming in runs the risk of infecting more people; working remotely runs the risk of prolonging your illness. Not taking vacation reduces the quality of your work and makes you more likely to get sick. Perhaps counter-intuitively, creating rules about these things gives employees more freedom to take…