Two quotes stood out to me: > What if software were built in the same way? What if the core parts of our business would be like streets, and all that newfangle

Two quotes stood out to me: > What if software were built in the same way? What if the core parts of our business would be like streets, and all that newfangled stuff is something we could build on top, experiment, tear it down if it does not work? To me, it kind of already is. The foundation on what we build most software on today; TCP/IP, HTTP, Win32, POSIX APIs, the C-runtime library, threads & processes, etc. Much of that is about 50 years old now. > Somehow, the code in front of you is just the tip of the iceberg of a lot of mental representation of what is happening I think this is a key point. When we look at code, the comfort with it is relative to how well we understand that abstraction, and have a good model for what it is doing "under-the-hood". I think a lot of the burn-out and "fatigue" some people feel is where these abstractions are regularly reinvented (I'm looking at you, JavaScript frameworks), and thus you have to spend time learning the details of a new abstraction before you can just read/write a piece of code comfortably.