Very condensed experiences from Etsy’s CTO: 1: Nothing we “know” about software development should be assumed to be true. 2: Technology is the product of the

Very condensed experiences from Etsy’s CTO: 1: Nothing we “know” about software development should be assumed to be true. 2: Technology is the product of the culture that builds it. 3: Software development should be thought of as a cycle of continual learning and improvement rather a progression from start to finish, or a search for correctness. 4: You build a culture of learning by optimizing globally not locally. 5: If you want to build for the long term, the only guarantee is change.