The Meridian Review

Engineering teams tend to be judged on what they build, not on what they avoid building. This creates a bias toward the new.

Boring is a feature

A decade-old database with a decade of documented failure modes is more predictable than a six-month-old one with a beautiful website. Predictability is what lets a small team sleep.

Spend novelty where it matters

Every organization has a limited budget for novelty. Spend it on the thing that makes the product distinctive, and be relentlessly conventional everywhere else.