Summary & Key Takeaways ​

• Simon Willison highlights Joel Spolsky's "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" as an early career influence.
• Will Larson's "Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt" reframed his view on managing technical debt.
• Charity Majors' "The Engineer/Manager Pendulum" provided permission to switch between engineering and management roles.
• These posts encouraged deeper understanding of underlying layers and embracing career flexibility.

Our Commentary ​

I love these kinds of posts. It's a great way to discover foundational ideas that might have slipped past you. "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" is a classic, and I genuinely agree with the sentiment about migrations being a core skill. These posts show that some wisdom is timeless.