Rules to work by?

[drwex]

A while back there was a series of postings about peoples' rules or guidelines for life. I'm wondering if you have similarly pithy rules for the job you do.

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1. Never do your good deeds in private (unless you're doing so on purpose. Then don't, anyway)
   
2. Don't go Radio Silent. If it was worth doing, it's worth talking about, and if it's worth talking about, it's worth talking about in a way that someone can repeat to someone else.
   
3. 'Runs ok today' is always better than 'Runs great tomorrow.'
   
4. People who say 'we don't want to hand them this thing that works ok, that will remove the incentive to finish the thing that works better,' should be beaten severely with sticks. This also applies to political contexts.
   
5. No one ever believes that the inside of what you do is prettier than the outside. If you make the inside a lot prettier than the outside, people will shortchange what you've done because it looks bad. The corrolary to this is that if the outside is beautiful, the inside must be too - misleading people by purposefully making the outside beautiful at the expense of the inside will lead them to be surprised when the device falls over in regular use.
   

[drwex]

Interesting.