Never, ever trust another person in a car. It's not that they have any ill intent toward you, though sometimes they do. But mostly they have no intent or awareness whatsoever beyond the glass windows of their killing machine, and the consequences to them for driving right over you and everything you love are essentially zero.

Technical discussions often bog down in a false dichotomy between the waterfall and the incremental sludge heap. The idea—that any divergence from pursuit of the most immediate bodge is to capitulate to eternal planning and inaction—is a bogus thought-terminating cliche.