The definition of success remains personal. Employing certain biases, too. Being successful in World Choice and Gameplay is relative, but it is also proportional to the biases.

EU did this long time ago, now they're doing it publicly. It sounded wrong back then, but turns out they were right.

> code is not an asset—it's a liability. Every line must be maintained, debugged, secured, and eventually replaced. The real asset is the business capability that code enables.

a must-have principle throughout the entire software engineering career.

Back then, all sorts of designs made the web a marvel. Until algorithms kicked in. We stripped the design in favor of machine-understandable information composition. So our thing would be most recommended by AD-pumped services/listings/directories. At the end, outreach mattered more than an elegant product. Unfortunately still does.

All people wanted was to give someone a coffee, not a fortune.