Own outcomes, not tasks

• Take responsibility beyond your assigned tickets
• Users don't care how difficult the implementation was
• Measure success by impact

Optimize for leverage

• Automate repetitive work
• Write code once, benefit many times
• Documentation is leverage
• Tools multiply output more than effort alone
• Teams using AI will move 10x faster than those not willing to change

Think in systems

• Every decision creates second-order effects
• Understand incentives and constraints
• Fix root causes, not symptoms

Learn how to communicate effectively

• Clear writing is clear thinking
• Everyone (including yourself) needs to become a better writer
• Good documentation saves other people's time
• Be the person taking notes, even if it's just for yourself
• Ideas only matter if people understand them

Be hard on ideas, easy on people

• Challenge assumptions aggressively
• Accept criticism without ego
• Disagreement is a path to better solutions
• The best idea wins

Knowledge should be shared

• Teaching exposes gaps in understanding
• The best way to learn is to teach

Be ruthlessly truth seeking

• Seek the collective truth, not just one opinion
• Have strong opinions
• You can just change your mind if wrong

Default to curiosity

• Ask why repeatedly
• Dig deeper than surface explanations
• Follow interesting questions
• Follow what genuinely interests you
• Curiosity is a competitive advantage

Start before you feel ready

• Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
• Small progress daily compounds into massive results
• Doing a little every day beats bursts of motivation

Compounding is everywhere

• Skills, relationships, and reputation compound
• Small improvements repeated consistently outperform big efforts done rarely

Work can also be your hobby

• This doesn't mean you can't have other hobbies
• Your best work comes from following your curiosity
• Maximize your exposure hours