• TEAM ’s duty, then, is to revive the system by building a new theory of it.
• the ultimate goal of software design should be (organizational) knowledge building.

The outside is where the unknowable can and will take place, and that’s what makes it so wonderful. A life without any serendipity is hardly worth living and yes, chance is precious enough that it is worth its cost.

• Tell the right stories about yourself
• Whenever you make a claim or an argument, try and imagine the strongest possible argument against it
• Write regularly, and learn to ‘think in writing’
• Do a weekly review
• Synthesize things as you read