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When considering the difference between luck and skill, it is always best to refer to the work of Michael Mauboussin who has said, “There’s a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on
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“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
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“One should not have to modify a working program. One should be able to add to it to implement new functionality or to adjust old functions for new requirements. We call this additive programming.”
― Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner
― Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner
“In a modular world, supplying a component or assembling outsourced components are both appropriate “solutions.” In the interdependent world of inadequate functionality, attempting to provide one piece of the system doesn’t solve anybody’s problem. Knowing this, we can predict the failure or success of a growth business based on managers’ choices to compete with modular architectures when the circumstances mandate interdependence, and vice versa.”
― The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
― The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Brian ’s 2025 Year in Books
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