You know, your engineer has been causing quite a stir lately, with all her new ideas ...

From last year's best-of:

Architecture matters a lot, and in subtle ways.

It's good to have a plan, but if something extraordinary comes your way, you should go for it.

Other people's culture wars always look ridiculous.

The meritocracy wasn't supposed to work this way.

"Let's get our little American girls ready for the wide-open working world!"

Never Forget:

It will always suck to work for large organizations, and the larger the organization, the more it will suck.