Our perception of reality is filtered through the meaning we assign to events, not the events themselves.

If children are preoccupied, if they are worried about their security, their safety and how they belong, they are not free to be curious about the wider world. Not being curious impacts negatively upon how they concentrate and learn.

The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output, because the practice is all we can control.

Mainly, however, I adjusted my thinking about risk. Don’t get me wrong. I’m as much of a risk taker as ever, but these days the risks I take are calculated ones.

Total responsibility for failure is a difficult thing to accept, and taking ownership when things go wrong requires extraordinary humility and courage.

It is through improving our ability to deliver software that organizations can deliver features faster, pivot when needed, respond to compliance and security changes, and take advantage of fast feedback to attract new customers and delight existing ones.

Our younger selves think in terms of a beginning, middle, and some kind of resolution. But somewhere along the way—perhaps in that middle—we realize that everyone lives with things that may not get worked out.

It doesn't matter how good your engineering team is if they are not given something worthwhile to build.

Being a leader requires: Accept your situation but don't give up.

Radical transparency can be scary—but it rocks. It is for those who are not interested in living a guarded, careful life and are quickly bored in the company of those who are.