![[Quotes#^378afe]] ![[Quotes#^45d9d9]] [[Output and outcome aren't the same thing]]. Developers often see software as an outcome and write code for its own sake, like hammers seeing everything as a nail. However, software is just an output, intended to generate an outcome. Focus on the outcome. Reframe the problem and consider if software is even necessary. [[Software is always a liability, the true asset is the knowledge it encodes]].