My mental model for software development has changed from "building" to "growing". Whipping up a stack that gets to the outcome is cheap, but all the hard work is in trimming it down, making it sane, well architected, maintainable etc.
"All 174 passengers later landed in Tel Aviv safely. Just as well their pit-stop was in Saudi Arabia where they were medically tended to by Saudi Muslims, and not say - the Netherlands - where they’d have to give up all their dried figs from Judea and Samaria and denounce their
