All code dies
Memento mori for software: the system you maintain with such care will be deleted — and writing while knowing that changes how you write.
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2026
The post-mortem is a premeditatio malorum
The Stoics rehearsed loss before it happened. Engineering calls this a pre-mortem — and almost never practices it.
The hype is none of your business
Marcus Aurelius on your feed: attention is the only resource you truly own — and the industry is organized around taking it from you.
You don't control the Friday deploy
The dichotomy of control applied to incidents: what Epictetus would say in the middle of a rollback at 6:47pm on a Friday.