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1. It’s really important you learn to delegate effectively and to choose carefully the things that you do get involved in.
2. As the organisation grows, strive to keep the number of stakeholders that need to be involved in any decision down to a minimum
3. You need to keep a strict handle on how many things you’re involved in concurrently; your natural human instinct to be helpful to everyone who asks you to do something for them, or to contribute to their project, actually isn’t helpful at all. (Nor is your desire to control / influence everything if you’re wired that way).
4. Working at or close to 100% utilization will slow to a crawl everything that depends on yo

"The most valuable asset in the software industry is the synthesis of programming skill and deep context in the business problem domain, in one skull."

"...there are an ever decreasing number of software problems that are so cut and dried that they can be tossed over a wall and implemented in isolation of business expertise."