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The unwritten laws of engineering at Stedi

This document captures the cornerstones of Stedi’s engineering culture. As a result of following the framework, product development may sometimes come to a screeching halt. The work itself may be tedious and frustrating.

I wrote this document several years ago when we were still figuring out our way of working – “how we do things here” – and were spending a lot of time aligning on decisions of all sizes. We talked about it a lot at the time, but we rarely have to reference it now – as Alfred North Whitehead said, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." The goal is not to strictly minimize these metrics via unbounded investment that has diminishing returns, but rather to surface flaws in configuration or implementation that are causing unnecessary waste.

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