Things I hold to be true, loosely. These change. That's the point.
The best tools disappear. If you're thinking about the tool, it's not good enough yet.
Writing is thinking. If you can't write it clearly, you don't understand it yet.
Most complexity is accidental. The hard part is knowing which complexity is essential.
You learn more from building the wrong thing than from planning the right thing.
Taste matters in engineering. Two systems can solve the same problem — one can feel right and the other can feel like a mess.
The internet is still the most interesting thing humans have built. Most of what we've done with it so far is embarrassing.
Being uncertain is more useful than being confident. Confidence closes doors.
Small, personal websites are an act of resistance against platforms that want to own your identity.
Every organization owes an unpayable debt to open source. Most of the infrastructure the modern world runs on was built by people who gave it away for free. We should never forget that — or take it for granted.
I'll add to this as I figure more things out.