This presentation had an outsize influence on my professional development as a programmer. If I've watched it once (and I have), I've watched it a dozen times.

This presentation had an outsize influence on my professional development as a programmer. If I've watched it once (and I have), I've watched it a dozen times. edit: The "Limits" slide (go to 12:30 in the vid) is one that I really internalized early on. And looking at it again years later, the principles from that slide absolutely guide my app development: - We can only hope to make reliable those things we can understand - We can only consider a few things at a time - Intertwined things must be considered together - Complexity undermines understanding