The message here is never to blindly trust anyone’s advice on how to improve your project. By definition, other people’s fitness landscapes are different than yours. It’s your hike. Nobody else can walk for you.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us? As we’ve already seen, the answer for many companies is “no.”

The introduction of a system into an environment changes the environment.

People should specialize in something, but they must be flexible enough not to claim exclusive job titles in support of their specialization.