Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters. This led to many questions about what that “stuff” might be. I’ve been a bit reluctant to answer those…