1. Seeing a company do agile right by keeping the customer so close their almost in-house. All the other stuff is meaningless. 2. Realising I didn't have to cod

1. Seeing a company do agile right by keeping the customer so close their almost in-house. All the other stuff is meaningless. 2. Realising I didn't have to code for faceless corporates shifting cash around, I could work for a small company actively trying to make people's lives better. 3. Breaking neural networks out of a predefined topology and letting them grow. 4. If it changes during runtime, put it in the database. If it changes per environment, put it in config. Every else in code. 5. That programming is a craft and you must treat it like one; just bashing out code to fill a brief isn't enough.