[morning-coffee]

It's hard to get past the hubris wrapped up in the statement "I'll show you how"... as if the tens of thousands of bright engineer's whose shoulders you stand on were incapable and you're the savior... maybe you are! (But just adding the word "try" in that sentence would reduce the perceived arrogance by orders of magnitude.)

[jdbernard]

I didn't read it that way. I read it as an introduction to a counter-cultural paradigm shift away from the "move fast and break things" and "abstract over it" mindsets. I'm very interested in the path they are going to outline.

[wryl]

Well, that certainly wasn't my intention, but in an environment of "I have a silver bullet and it'll cost you $X", I can understand the sentiment.

At the same time, I do want to show that I have confidence in my ideas. Hubris and confidence must be applied in equal parts.

[croemer]

Hubris and confidence are two sides of the same coin. Did you maybe mean to say that one should balance hubris with humility to avoid coming across as arrogant?

[wryl]

Yep, that's what I meant. Lots of comments, not a lot of time for proofreading!