Insights from a CTO practicionare

Every time I’ve built or inherited a team, one trait rises above all others: ownership. Do you ship? Do you own it when it breaks? Do you make the system better for the next person?

Also buried as a footnote ‘business > tech’. Being great at problem solving means being great at whatever tools solve it the most efficiently.

_{Quote Citation: Ben Howdle, “How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects”, 02 Apr 2025, https://benhowdle.im/principles-and-implementation}