15 Things I Learned in Tech (That Actually Matter)

There’s a point in your career where engineering stops being about writing correct code and starts being about making irreversible decisions under uncertainty . At that stage, the hardest problems aren’t: syntax frameworks algorithms They’re: trade-offs failure modes long-term consequences Everything below comes from systems I’ve built, scaled, broken, and rebuilt. This is not theory. This is what reality taught me—sometimes expensively. 1. Tech Debt Is a Strategic Lever (If You Treat It Like On