Focus on decisions, not tasks

This is what I generally mean by taking an "heuristic approach."

I feel that we need to have a "fuzzy logic" approach to our work.

However, that works best, when the engineer is somewhat experienced.

If they are inexperienced (even if very skilled and intelligent), we need to be a lot more dictatorial.

Thinking in Bets has been one of the most useful books to how I approach software engineering. It’s not even about code, just how to make decisions effectively in limited information environments.

Love that book. Such a powerful idea to phrase your predictions in terms of percentages rather than absolutes. Apparently the Super Bowl anecdote is controversial though? I.e. the conclusions to draw from that anecdote are very debatable.