As CTO of my last company I tried to optimize for developer productivity. This goal requires careful sheapording of the team and choices along the way. I find

As CTO of my last company I tried to optimize for developer productivity. This goal requires careful sheapording of the team and choices along the way. I find this attention to detail is often lost or never strives for in favor of other priorities. After a while, the team loses site of what productive feels like. TL;DR These lisp machine articles are interesting, in part, because they remind us what productive feels like.