Via Tanya Reilly’s excellent The Staff Engineer’s Path (and no, I’m not just saying that because I’m quoted in it), another quote I think about all the time. Unfortunately the talk this quote is from now requires registration, but if you’re willing to give your email address you can watch the full thing.

This one is from Richard White‘s Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (about the construction of the railroads in the late 19th century):

Continuing my semi-occasional series of quotes I think about a lot, I realized a while back that work is basically a hobby of mine. I don’t mean the specific work I do for a given company for pay, but the larger themes of the kind of work I do, what’s important to me, what I…

That wasn’t very data-driven of you.

“How” questions unlock more than “why” questions.