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Garry Tan@garrytan

If you can’t grow and you were growing before, often it’s because something broke in the software and people can’t complete their tasks. Every code change no matter how small will introduce more bugs. Design to catch failure instead of pretending the code is perfect.

238 likes6 repliesPosted Jun 15, 2020

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Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
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Written for: Engineers and technical teams

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