As a software product ages it will grow. The growth is either in features or perhaps only in amount of code. The very best developers increase the clarity of the code. The worst developers create a tangle of code.

It is better to build, to write with a longer view. Understand that you may not have the chance to come back to this code, to this problem before the whole structure collapses. With that collapse you will be sent back to wild world of recruiters and hiring managers.

A lush garden or a fetid swamp? Stay on path and enjoy the tea of the garden.

Politics provides limited choices for most of us. It is as if we are outside the restaurant and it’s midnight. Midnight by the dumpster of the political fund-raiser. The choices we have are to eat the food that falls on the ground, or the food that makes it into the dumpster. Oh joyous choice. There is never a third choice with an idea. Just another variant of the same happy fizzies party. Candidates from the alley will never be more than servants at the party. Guests in name only.