[matt_daemon]

    “Choose Boring Technology” by Dan McKinley (2015)

    This is an odd essay to include in this list because I’ve never actually read it.

    People have quoted this essay to me, and once I understood the idea, it felt so intuitive that I didn’t need to read it.

This is such a strange thing to include and obviously a lie as he goes on to describe the essay in detail.

[wonger_]

Idk, "choose boring technology" and "you get three innovation tokens" is enough to make the point. It's easy to understand and come up with your own examples imo.

Like, I've heard "no silver bullet" quoted enough that I could write about the main ideas, despite never having read the paper.