https://alannorton.com/tags/leadership/ Recent content in Leadership on 👨🏻‍💻 ∉ ℚ Hugo en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:27:48 -0700 https://alannorton.com/posts/things-ive-changed-my-mind-about/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://alannorton.com/posts/things-ive-changed-my-mind-about/ <p>Strong opinions, held for years, quietly abandoned. This is a list of things I used to believe and don&rsquo;t anymore.</p> <h2 id="compiled-languages-are-safer-than-interpreted-ones">Compiled languages are safer than interpreted ones</h2> <p>I came up writing Java, and Java taught me that correctness was the compiler&rsquo;s job. If it built, it was <em>probably</em> right; if it didn&rsquo;t, the compiler told me where I&rsquo;d gone wrong. That felt like safety. It took me years to notice it was mostly a crutch, as I learned to lean on the toolchain when I didn&rsquo;t know the language well enough to reason in the language itself.</p>