As an engineering leader, saying no is a superpower.

Counter: Saying yes and imagining what’s possible is a superpower.

Honorable mention: Avoiding becoming a gatekeeper or single point of failure is a superpower

TLDR: Build distributed and fault tolerant human systems. Reject what needs to be rejected and say yes to ambitious things you can’t yet conceive.

A good summary and collection of Rails security/anonymizing practices:

https://ankane.org/sensitive-data-rails

Recommended reading Blue Tape List

• Transitioning a Startup from MongoDB to Postgres
• Engineering Leadership with Remote Teams
• Lessons as an Engineering Leader
• Emotional Labor of Management
• Productive Engineering and Management Culture
• The Value of Long Form Writing and Thinking Time
• Elixir Reflections: 2013 to Now
• My Development Environment
• Notetaking 2021
• Startup Horror Stories