Joel Spolsky's 2000 checklist for software teams — twelve yes/no questions (do you use source control? do you have a bug database?) that, 25 years on, are still the most-cited engineering-quality heuristic on the web.
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Stratechery / Ben Thompson (2015)Ben Thompson's 2015 essay that defined a decade of strategy thinking: why internet winners are aggregators (Google, Facebook, Amazon), not producers — and what that means for every incumbent since.
Paul GrahamPaul Graham on what taste actually is in technical work — and why good taste, in code or in any other craft, is something you can cultivate rather than something you are born with.
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