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Joel Spolsky's argument against rewriting software from scratch — still the most persuasive case ever made for maintaining and improving existing systems over big rewrites.

“Every team I've worked on has, at some point, had the rewrite conversation. This essay is the fastest way to explain why that's almost always the wrong call.”

Dan Luu's characteristically data-driven look at the actual tradeoffs of working at startups vs. large companies — punctures a lot of myths on both sides.

“Dan doesn't moralize. He just shows the numbers and the incentives. Changed how I think about career decisions for engineers.”

Ben Kuhn argues that sustained attention is the bottleneck on almost everything valuable — and that our collective inability to focus is a bigger crisis than we acknowledge.

“Short, tight, and correct. I reread this whenever I notice I'm skimming more than reading.”