Sam Schillace writes:

I was talking with the engineering team at Box about what I’ve learned along this journey, and what came out of that conversation were my personal engineering principals. These aren’t rules or engineering guidelines. They’re simply the principles that I pay attention to when I write and operate code.

These include:

• Be paranoid.
• Don’t lie to the computer.
• Keep it simple.
• First rule of optimizing: don’t.
• Don’t just fix the bug; fix all possibility of it ever happening again.
• Question assumptions constantly.
• Think long term. Slow down, it goes faster.
• Care about your code.
• Cheap, fast, right — pick two.
• Conclusion: Be curious. Learn as much as you can, all the time.