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by petrogradphilos 2261 days ago
I like what you've written here. If you write stuff elsewhere, please put a pointer in your HN profile.

Judging by your influences as an architect, I think you would enjoy these books:

- Ronald Ross, Principles of the Business Rule Approach.

- David B. Black, Wartime Software. If you like this, you'd probably like his other books as well. They each cover a different facet of software development, including QA and "project management" (which Black refers to as a disease).

You might also enjoy the essay by David Black in which he proposes "Occamlity" as the metric of software "goodness" (https://www.blackliszt.com/2020/03/william-occam-inventor-me...):

> I propose that a piece of software can be measured by its “Occamality.” The more “Occamal” it is, the better it is. And I propose that Occamality is strictly correlated with the extent to which there is no redundancy of any kind in a program...