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• Most skills aren’t transferrable, nor are they that useful beyond the context of the single project
  • So, selfishly, I tend to think this way: if 90% of what I’m doing today won’t help me in the next job, then I should either reduce that 90% (for example, by focusing on general-purpose ideas, systems, abstractions, technologies), just not care as much about that 90% (as I used to), or find a job where I’m willing to sacrifice that 90% of my time because I think the cause is really important or the money is so…
• Signoff/buyin meetings are useless. Meetings should be used for getting input and answering questions
• Main purpose of estimates is to apply pressure
  • Very rarely do software estimates work out
• Distinguish between:
  • Hard deadline
  • Soft deadline
  • Internal deadline
  • Expected completition date