- autonomy
- take personal responsibility to be proactive and be the owner of implementation E2E
- craftsmanship
- never half-ass anything that ships
- details and elegance matter for designing/building/operating solid systems
- curiosity
- best work is not defined but discovered under constraints and in context
- deep dive
- get to the root of problem and fix that
- aim to better understand wider systems
- pragmatic
- strong ownership, but value stakeholder input
- high level sense of urgency, but not hurried
- some details matter than other - no bike shedding
- know when to dive deep. weigh practise over academicy-ivory-tower theory