Derek Neighbors

Law 38 was about how much of yourself you let a room see.

An engineer walks you through the design for a new billing service.

The error rate has been climbing for eleven minutes.

Skye Cleary tells a story about a parakeet named Delilah.

The story goes like this.

The agent opens the pull request.

Two people answer the same question in a design review.

Law 37 was about what you make everyone look at.

Two people spend the same Tuesday hour on AI.

The incident review ends the way incident reviews end.

Tuesday the rumor got around.

The architecture review ran ninety minutes and ended on time.

You are at 0.4 and there is a slide about it.

Attention goes to the fire.

Law 36 was about what you refuse to look at.

I came off a long desert run last month and opened the watch before I sat down.

I sat in a status meeting last month where the launch was “on track.”

Someone asked on X whether learning to code from scratch is still worth it.

The version I read, in the Admired Leadership newsletter, goes like this.

Claude offered to put itself in my build last week.

Law 35 was when you move.

Years ago I worked with a software company whose core platform had been written by one person in its first year.

The point of golf is to get the ball into the hole.

Two senior engineers watch the same junior stall on the same ticket.

Picture two engineering organizations.

Every software company I have been around tells the same story at offsites.

The word shows up in ordinary sentences.