[Terretta]

Refreshingly written. And like wading into the ocean on a surprisingly hot spring day, bracing.

At most any given scope, "most" systems you interact with aren't under your own control. For this, consider: because that's true, the fault is yours for not grappling with that reality.

This has been written about before:

https://ruggedsoftware.org

But even that was missing a bullet:

- recognize that my code will interact with systems I cannot anticipate, that change in ways I cannot control, and become coupled more than ever intended