Excellent list. 7. Never lie to us. We are used to our machines always telling the truth. We insist on no less from other humans. I've started to think of thi

Excellent list. 7. Never lie to us. We are used to our machines always telling the truth. We insist on no less from other humans. I've started to think of this as an impedance mismatch between engineers and managers. Our "subordinates" (computers, compilers) tell us we fucked up at our jobs by giving them nonsensical instructions. "Your brackets don't match and I don't know WTF to do. Line 87, fix your shit or I'm doing nothing." Being nonsentient machines, they don't fear getting fired so they tell the truth. We get a kind of feedback from "subordinates" that managers never, ever get. We program them to come to us speedily with bad news. Managers, on the other hand, program us (by having temper tantrums and occasionally turning off peoples' incomes) as well as each other to do the opposite.